TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting The Nanotechnology Research Agenda
T2 - Medical Research Versus Energy Research
AU - Weckert, John
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = May 2010; Journal title (773t) = Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics. ISSNs: 1328-4576;
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - The subject matter of applied ethics most commonly comes from problems raised by a particular technology or activity. Computer ethics has focussed on problems raised by computer technology while much of the subject matter of medical ethics is found in medical practices. Much of this is reactive, though not in a pejorative sense. Problems arise and applied ethicists attempt to find solutions; they react to those problems. Computer technology, for example, has enabled new levels of monitoring and surveillance, which raise problems of personal privacy, which rightly, have been much discussed. But not all applied ethics is reactive or ethics last (Moor and Weckert, 2004) and this is particularly true for the ethics of nanotechnology, or nanoethics.
AB - The subject matter of applied ethics most commonly comes from problems raised by a particular technology or activity. Computer ethics has focussed on problems raised by computer technology while much of the subject matter of medical ethics is found in medical practices. Much of this is reactive, though not in a pejorative sense. Problems arise and applied ethicists attempt to find solutions; they react to those problems. Computer technology, for example, has enabled new levels of monitoring and surveillance, which raise problems of personal privacy, which rightly, have been much discussed. But not all applied ethics is reactive or ethics last (Moor and Weckert, 2004) and this is particularly true for the ethics of nanotechnology, or nanoethics.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Justice
KW - Medical ethics
KW - Nanoethics
KW - Nanotechnology
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 45
EP - 55
JO - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics
JF - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics
SN - 1328-4576
IS - 1 and 2
ER -