Assessing the future: Past and present visions of nanomedicine

Nanomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 3195-3197

  Kubischok, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinarity; nanomedicine; sociology; technology assessment; visions

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; HUMAN; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SOCIOLOGY; VISION; TRENDS;

NANOMEDICINE;

EID: 84944939645     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.15.176     Document Type: Review

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