‘Societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology’: Meanings, interest groups, and social dynamics

Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 413-449

  Schummer, Joachim ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SEMANTICS;

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; HISTORY OF SCIENCE; INTEREST GROUPS; SCIENCE FICTIONS; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; TRANSHUMANISTS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84969285251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812773975_0019     Document Type: Chapter

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