Beyond Imagination

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The Ethics and Applications of Nanotechnology and Bio-Economics in South Africa

Nanotechnology is sweeping the world. This science of very small particles, which includes genetic modification and the reconfiguring of the arrangement of atoms, presents possibilities beyond imagination. It also has huge implications for us all, especially here at home.

How exactly is this new technology playing out in South Africa?

In countries like India nanotechnology is being supported as a source of income and innovation. It has the potential to improve both the human condition and a country’s productivity and competitiveness.

Is South Africa doing what it should and could to foster nanotechnology advances within the country? And what does the new technology mean for us as consumers? How many of us know that this technology is already being employed in substances like suntan cream and lipstick, with potential health implications for users?

The application of nanotechnology poses risks as well as huge benefits, so we need to be particularly vigilant of the ethics and dangers of it.

This book provokes discussion around these important topics and relays eye- opening information to those of us who thought all of this was sci-fi.

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Dimensions 235 × 155 mm
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Shih-Hsin Chen is a faculty member at the Institute of Management of Technology (AACSB accredited) at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Mary Gulumian is head of the Toxicology and Biochemistry Section, National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH).
Zamanzima Mazibuko is a senior researcher in the Knowledge Economy and Scientific Advancement Faculty at MISTRA.
Puleng Matatiele is currently a senior medical scientist in the Analytical Services section of the National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH), Johannesburg.
Mammo Muchie is currently a DST/NRF research professor of Innovation Studies at the Institute of Economics Research on Innovation (IERI), at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.
Swapan Kumar Patra is presently working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.
Radhika Perrot is a freelance researcher with experience in technology policy and research analysis of climate change, renewable energy technologies and innovation policies.
Natasha Sanabria is currently at the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH/NHLS) and Research Unit in Bioinformatics, Rhodes.
Hailemichael Teshome Demissie is an associate professor of Law at the School of Law of the University of Gondar in Ethiopia.
Shashank S Tiwari is currently based in the United States of America and works as a science policy analyst.
Melissa Vetten is a scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Health, South Africa, who has been involved in nanotoxicology research since 2010.
Thomas S Woodson is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University, New York, in the Department of Technology and Society.

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