Science, Technology, and Society Reviewer: Nanotechnology

Study Notes

Nano means "dwarf" in Greek.
Richard Feynman coined the term nanotechnology.
The title of Richard Feynman's famous speech introducing nanotechnology is "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom".
A nanometer is equivalent to one billionth of a meter.
Consumer products that use nanotechnology include sunscreen lotion, golf shafts, and tennis rackets.
Graphene is a type of carbon that is composed of flat sheets, extremely electrically conductive, and an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of carbon.
Gray goo is a hypothetical nano robot that can replicate itself.
Human hair can be measured on the nanoscale.
Materials with the same chemical composition can have different properties at the nanoscale size.
Nano particles can be found in nature and can be made by humans.
The scale range of nanomaterials is 1-100nm, as provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
There are present Philippine laws that regulate the manufacture of nanotechnology.

Medical Ethics refers to a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and scientific research.
Thomas Percival is the English author and physician who published Medical Ethics, which first dated back to 1803.
The first Code of Ethics was published in the 5th century during the reign of King Theodoric the Great.
The American Medical Association first adapted a Code of Medical Ethics in 1847, based on the work of Thomas Percival.
Autonomy is a doctrine that refers to the right of patients to refuse any kind of treatment.
The concept of double effect refers to a situation where a treatment has both beneficial and harmful effects, such as in the case of pain relievers.

Sarin is a colorless, odorless nerve gas and an organophosphate chemical, also known as GB.
Soman is a combination of Sarin and Lewisite, and is an effective blistering agent.
Zyklon B is a poison gas invented in Germany in 1920, and is a type of hydrogen cyanide used by the Nazis to kill war victims.
Ebola Virus is a virus that causes severe bleeding.
VX is a very toxic nerve gas, 100 times more toxic than Sarin.
Smallpox is a disease that causes high fever, body aches, and a rash that develops into fluid-like bumps and produces scabs and permanent, pitted scars.
Anthrax is a biological weapon caused by a bacterium, found naturally in some animals in low levels, but becomes deadly when its spores are inhaled by humans.
Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted to humans by bites from infected rats.
Tularemia is also known as rabbit fever.
Rinderpest is also known as cattle plague.