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Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment Minding and Managing the Potential Threats around Us

Edited by Steven Ripp and Theodore Henry

OUP USA, ACS Symposium Series 1079, Hardback, May 2012, Pages: 200, Price: GBP95.00 / US150.00 / EUR119.00, ISBN: 978-0-84-122660-9 http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780841226609.do

Evolving bio and nanotechnologies encompass a vast and diverse assortment of products and materials that have the potential to bring about major changes in our lives. However, remarkable benefits can all too often be accompanied by potential detrimental conse- quences. Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment: Minding and Managing the Potential Threats around Us presents contemporary research efforts, public policy and regulatory aspects, and ethical issues focused on recognizing, understanding, and responding to these consequences in terms of human and envi- ronmental impacts. This includes topics relevant to manufactured nanoparticle toxicity in relation to human, animal, and microorganism exposure, consequent environmental fate and impacts, and downstream effects on other emerging nano/bio industries. Emerging tools and modeling approaches for enhanced understanding of bio and nanotechnology risks are presented in order to provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of nano/biotechnology risk assessment.

ToC

1. Understanding and Coping with Social Risk in Emerging Technology Risk Assessment, Paul B. Thompson 2. Case Study of an Emergent Nanotechnology: Identifying Environmental Risks from Silver Nanotechnology through an Expert Elicitation Methodology, Emma Fauss, Michael Gorman, and Nathan Swami

3. Environmental Application and Risks of Nanotechnology: A Balanced View, Jie Zhuang and Randall W. Gentry

4. Environmental Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Carbon Nanoparticles, Liwen Zhang and Qingguo Huang

5. Ecotoxicity of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: A Critical Review of Evidence for Nano-Size Effects, Elijah J. Petersen and Theodore B. Henry

6. Nanotoxicology in the Microbial World, Steven Ripp 7. Methodologies for Toxicity Monitoring and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment, Silvana Andreescu, Mihaela Gheorghiu, R. Emrah Özel, and Kenneth N. Wallace

12-04 :: April/May 2012