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Risk Communication for Nanobiotechnology: To Whom, About What, and Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Susanna Hornig Priest
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Regulatory oversight and public communication are intimately intertwined. Oversight failures, both actual and perceived, quickly galvanize attention from both the media and the public, as has occasionally happened in all of the historical cases with which this symposium is concerned — gene therapy, workplace chemicals, drugs and devices, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), especially those used as (or in) foods. Some developments, such as GMOs, seem to have more cultural significance or “cultural resonance” than others and are especially likely to garner public attention. Developments in nanotechnology, on the other hand, do not seem to have captured as much popular attention. However, the accelerating convergence between nanotechnology as material science and biotechnology, health, and medicine could easily change this situation.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , Winter 2009 , pp. 759 - 769
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2009

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