Thematic Section: Nanotechnology, Ethics and Development

Development (2006) 49, 54–59. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100297

Nanotechnology in Medicine: Implications of converging technologies on humanity

Debra Bennett-Woods

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Abstract

Nanotechnology holds great potential as an enabler of a wide range of biotechnologies that will change the face of medicine and may eventually alter the very definition of human health. Deb Bennett-Woods argues that these changes will also pose unprecedented challenges regarding access to health-related technologies, the meaning of consent, and the nature of human identity.

Keywords:

converging technologies, biotechnology, NBIC, global health, nanomedicine, ethics