Nanoparticles: Risk Management and the Precautionary Principle

Philosophy and Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue , 2008, Pages 85-102

  Grunwald, Armin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ethics of technology; nanoparticles; nanotechnology; precautionary ethics; Risk; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85094970727     PISSN: 03767418     EISSN: 22150080     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8649-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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