Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China

Dr Sally Dalton-Brown is the Dean of Trinity College, The University of Melbourne. She has published widely on global literature and philosophy.

• Introductory context.- What is Nanotechnology and What Should We Be Worried About?.- Bioethics as an Approach to Nano ethics in China and the EU.- Nano regulation.- pTA (participatory Technology Assessment), Habermas’s Dialogue/Discourse Ethics and Nanofora.- The Virtuous Discourse Agent.- Universalism Versus Relativism.- Conclusion: Discourse Ethics and the Dialectics of East-West Intersubjectivity.