Ethical+Implications

**Ethical Implications **

Introduction
.......... ........ Nanotechnology offers great promises for medicine in the future. Fore-sighting the breakthrough technologies is difficult and carry the risk that

early public engagement may promote either public assurance or public panic over the wrong issues. . ....... Nanomedicine is still a young technology, and still has a lot to offer because of this nanomedicine can not be analyzed easily from an ethical

perspective. Dr. Raj Bawa explains "Interventions based on nanotechnologies likely will resurrect old questions about human enhancement,human

dignity, and justice that have been asked many times before in the context of pharmaceutic research, stem cell research, and gene therapy"

(Berger, 2008,EthicalAspects of Nanotechnology, para.5).

.......... Even if in the future nanomedicine does not evolve as much as everyone expects, we still have to consider the possibilities of this technology and

the ethical implications that will come with it. There are on-going debates in the ethical community discussing matters of nanorisk and regulation. In the

rights-led approach to precaution, the questions are addressing concerns about the liability for nanoproducts and nanomedical services in a context of

profound uncertainty (Brownsword, 2009). The future of nanomedicine will touch issues such as sensitivity of genetic information, the gap between

diagnosis and therapy; health care resources and tensions between holistic and functional medicine.

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Some Ethical Debates
.......... If everything goes as planned with nanomedicine, one of the major concerns for the citizens is the undetectable surveillance, and the

governments could have a hard time controlling the people that want their right to privacy. On the other hand, nanomedicine could be the end for some of

the other ethical conflicts in the world. Could some unnamed group decide to experiment in different methodologies as they did with cloning?

Will someone decide to use nanotechnology in making a food supply, as they did in the movie "Solent Green"? For example, cow slaughter

could be a thing of the past, the use of radiation in order to cure certain diseases would be eliminated, and it may even be the end for lawsuits

against hospitals for misdiagnosis and other malpractices, as a society we can only hope.