A.
No reliable information can properly reflect on the health-related, ecological, ethical & social impacts of nanotechnology. The ethical issues arising from the applications of nanotechnology are numerous & complex.
B.
Nanotechnology is depicted either as the future solution to world health problems or the future cause of a great ecological disaster. The ethical debate on nanotechnology highlights the oscillation between the consequentialist & deontological approach, well known in bioethics.
C.
The advances within nanotechnology led to debates on the ethical implications of its applications, including equity, benefit distribution, & environmental impact.
D.
Nanotechnology not only entails epistemic rupture, but introduces new laws & structures of knowledge, or new cognitive categories. Whether proceeding from the perspective of nanoethics, the discussion regarding the ethical implications of nanotechnology reveals that the questions do not arise only from within the social sciences.