Law of nanotechnology: implications for public health

The event "Law of nanotechnology: implications for public health" will take place in the Department of Chemistry, aula 5 (Campus Universitario, Via Orabona, Bari) on Monday 12th october 2015 at 16,00.

Law and science have partnered together in the recent past, to solve major public health issues, using “global health diplomacy”.
The global health package embraces nanotechnology: new economic frontiers with wide horizons, promising new medicines, strong packaging to protect goods from contamination, cheaper consumer products and new commerce from their trade. Nanotechnology involves manipulating known chemicals at the molecular and atomic level in order to create smaller, faster, stronger, lighter, reliable products.
Opinion leaders in science, law and health policy herald nanotechnology as a “revolution”, bringing to civil society unprecedented developments and three trillion dollars of economic growth in 2015. But many political leaders find it easy to complain that nanotechnology will cause potential harm to human health and the environment, with attendant impact upon all public health. Which view is true, however, remains to be determined. Nanotechnology’s “revolution” provides the perfect vehicle to pose difficult, unresolved health policy questions in civil society and then fix them.
This lecture concludes by discussing emerging draft text that synthesizes key elements of nanotechnology risk management under laws, noting both the confusing swamp of new laws that emerge in conflict with each other and the prospect of a future world order that will harmonize emerging law and incubate new commerce while protecting the human right to health in civil society.

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