26th June 2009
by Dr Naomi Salmon, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth
University, Wales, UK
Archive for the ‘Governance’ Category
European Community Law and Nanotechnology: A Risky Business?
In Governance, Law, regulation on July 15, 2009 at 4:09 pm‘No data, no market’ for nanotechnologies, MEPs say
In Governance, Law, nano, Nanoscale, Policy, regulation on April 8, 2009 at 11:28 pmInsurers scrutinize nanotechnology
In Environment/Climate, Governance, Health, Human Security Food Water..., nano, Nanoscale on January 21, 2009 at 11:39 pmOn September 24, 2008, the U.S. insurance company Continental Western Group (CWG) issued a statement noting that it would exclude nanotubes and nanotechnology from its coverage.
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The Power of Language new column from me out
In Ableism, Disabled People, Governance on August 2, 2008 at 4:26 pmScientists: Humans and machines will merge in future
In Ableism, Enhancement, Governance, Longevity, nano, Nanoscale, NBICS on July 19, 2008 at 3:08 pm# Nick Bostrom says technology will let humans manipulate their own biology
# Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will be mostly non-biological by around 2030
# Biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics could merge mankind with machines
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Canadian academies report on Nanotechnology
In Governance, Health, Law, nano, Nanoscale on July 10, 2008 at 3:52 pmThe Council of Canadian Academies has been asked by the federal Minister of Health: “What is the state of knowledge with respect to existing nanomaterial properties and their health and environmental risks, which could underpin regulatory perspectives on needs for research, risk assessment and surveillance?”
An Expert Panel on Nanotechnology has been appointed by the Council of Canadian Academies to address this question. Scientific knowledge, or evidence, is broadly interpreted to include natural sciences and engineering, as well as social sciences.
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Scientists Identify Genes for brain development
In Ableism, Enhancement, Genes, Genetic, Governance, Health, Law, Medicine, Neuro on July 7, 2008 at 2:12 pminterestingly the write up title is
Scientists Identify Genes that Could Turn Ordinary People into Supergeniuses (or Mindless Drones)
What Sorts of Paralympics? A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
In Ableism, Cogno, Disabled People, Governance, Neuro, Olympics, Paralympics, Sport on June 18, 2008 at 12:47 pmIts about a swimmer with cerebral palsy and developmental differences. An excerpt
“Mr. Kendall Bailey, an athlete who is a citizen of the USA and eligible to represent the USA in international competition, is inappropriately classified to compete in International Paralympic Committee (IPC) swimming competition. Mr. Bailey is intellectually disabled. The intellectual disability classification for swimming (S14) is not presently recognized by the IPC; nor is an intellectually disabled swimmer eligible to compete under the IPC Swimming Functional Classification System.”
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What sort of coverage: Amputees fight caps in coverage for prosthetics
In Ableism, Bionic, Disabled People, Governance, Health, Law, Medicine on June 10, 2008 at 6:29 pmBy Dave Gram, Associated Press
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – After bone cancer forced the amputation of her
right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her
insurer told her that she had spent her $10,000 lifetime coverage limit
on her temporary limb and that the company wouldn’t pay for a permanent
one……
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Question: One the one hand society promotes a body image and a social environment that seems to make legs essential 9most places are still not set up for non leg modes of movements)and on the other hand they are not willing to enable one to have the legs.
Technorati Tags: legs, prosthetics, insurance, payment, ableism, disablement,
What Sorts of Nano research: A code of conduct for responsible nanosciences and nanotechnologies research
In Ableism, Bionic, Disabled People, Enhancement, Governance, nano, Nanoscale on May 30, 2008 at 12:32 amof interest
4.1.16 N&N research organisations should not undertake research aiming for non-therapeutic enhancement of human beings leading to addiction or solely for the illicit enhancement of the performance of the human body.
THis suggests that every other enhancement research is allowed like ‘therapeutic’ (who decides what is therapeutic), and non therapeutic work that is not used for doping purposes or leads to addictions.. Additions are mostly drug related at first glance but may be one say that one can become addicted to ones enhancements like emotionally addicted.
In general the section seem to give the go ahead for most enhancement work
Some of the other wordings of the code might be usable for us but will see.Technorati Tags: Code, Nano, Enhancement, Europe
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Gregor
Nanosolar new column from me out
In Energy, Governance, Human Security Food Water..., nano, Nanoscale, Solar on May 23, 2008 at 2:03 pmMain point is that solar energy seems to move towards the cost level of coal, natural gas…
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Technorati Tags: Energy, Electricity, Solar, Choice is yours column, Wolbring, Nano, nanotechnology, nanoscale, photovoltaic,
At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends
In Bionic, Cogno, Governance, Human Security Food Water..., nano, Nanoscale, NBICS, Neuro, Robotics on May 23, 2008 at 2:35 amScheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface
In Bionic, Cogno, Disabled People, Enhancement, Governance, Health, Information Technology, nano, Nanoscale, NBICS, Neuro, Robotics on May 23, 2008 at 2:26 am20 May 2008—A group of mechanical engineers at Caltech have come up with a way to guide miniature robots in the task of inserting and positioning electrode arrays in brain tissue. What they propose would be the first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.
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Technorati Tags: Health, brain machine interface, neuro, cognition, disabled people, enhancement
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