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For five years now, the NanoEthicsBank, a database exploring the societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology, has been documenting developments in this area through seminal reports, journal articles, and other materials being published from about 2000 to the present. Materials collected in this database include normative documents, such as guidelines for safety in the workplace, and descriptive materials, such as analysis of the U.S. government’s capacity for oversight and studies of the media coverage of nanotechnology.
One of our main focuses in this project has been to follow the development of normative documents, such as standards, best practices and guidelines. We have been researching both who is developing these guidelines, how and why they are being developed, as well as how these guidelines are being (or not being) used by research institutions and companies working with nanomaterials. This blog is our attempt to share our findings with the wider community. On it, we will post both recent additions to the NEB collection in the area of normative documents, as well as findings from our own research and the related work of other scholars active in this area.
Please continue to check back in the next weeks and months for updates to this blog, and let us know what you think!
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