Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China
This book addresses questions surrounding the feasibility of a global approach to ethical governance of science and technology. The emergence and rapid spread of nanotechnology offers a test case for how the world might act when confronted with a technolo
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Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China Towards a Global Approach for Science and Technology
Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China
Sally Dalton-Brown
Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China Towards a Global Approach for Science and Technology
Sally Dalton-Brown Trinity College University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-18232-2 ISBN 978-3-319-18233-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18233-9
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Acknowledgments
This book has been partly written in the UK and partly in Australia (as well as on a few long plane journeys in between). I owe many people my thanks in both places and some beyond. First of all I would like to thank the incomparable Empress Doris for her calm perspicacity and endless patience and for her great friendship. Thanks also to Miltos Ladikas for access to GEST reports, advice on pTA, and particularly for including me on his GEST trip to Beijing. I am grateful also to Ma Ying from CASTED for sending me various nanoarticles, and arranging a nanotechnology panel in Beijing, and to Camilo Fautz at ITAS (KIT) for sending me some useful articles on EU regulation. Thanks to Roger Chenells and Kate Chatfield, study buddies extraordinaire, and to Tim Thornton. I also thank the University of Central Lancashire for providing me with the funding that made this possible and to Cathy Lennon for helping me with my many bureaucratic incompetencies, amongst other things. And last but not least, thanks to you-know-who for the support, including endless cups of tea; by my reckoning this project took nearly a thousand. I say nothing of
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