Series Editor's Preface
Jeremy Ramsden
September 2009
Whereas, formerly, societies stumbled upon their consensuses seemingly through a series of accidents with much backtracking, in our present globalized society we feel that they should be reached through a much more rational process, informed by reliable and comprehensive knowledge. This book has been assembled very much in that spirit of promoting such rational decision-making. The object of discussion is the impact, focusing on health and safety aspects, of nanotechnology on the human environment. Uniquely, it combines technological aspects (i.e., the toxicology of nano objects) with issues of regulation (i.e., legal aspects, covering both the USA and the European Union) and management ...
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