Proposed Strategies for Teaching Ethics of Nanotechnology

NanoEthics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-228

  Barakat, Nael ^a   Jiao, Heidi ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanotechnology education pedagogies; Nanotechnology ethics education; Practical ethics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952070090     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-010-0100-0     Document Type: Article

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