Beauty, babies and dieting: the impact of nanotechnology law on reproductive health and women health disparities

The event "Law of nanotechnology: implications for public health" will take place in the Department of Chemistry, aula 5 (Campus Universitario "Ernesto Quagliariello", Via Orabona 4, Bari) on Wednesday 14th october 2015 at 16,00.

The sheer economic importance of nanotechnology will change several antiquated systems regarding industrial processes, scientific understanding and categorization of chemical informatics, and ultimately, the health care delivery systems that must use or correct the end products of these changes anyway. Recognizing that nanotechnology is already here in hundreds of consumer products: tennis balls, cars, refrigerators, cameras, cosmetics, the Committee noted that consumer products applying nanotechnology are predicted to be 3 trillion US dollars by 2015. The question how to regulate in advance of cumulative doses that may present undue risks to the general public and the global disease burden absorbed by public health systems, while nonetheless supporting important economic development that will incubate nanotechnology industries requires careful forethought when approaching the effort for legislative drafting, Therefore, nanotechnology’s arrival in commerce provides an unprecedented excellent opportunity to change society for the better, especially benefiting “vulnerable” target groups, typically characterized as women, aging and disabled populations.

Nanomedicine and concomitant advances in commercial applications of sciences that are using nanotechnology will require society to rethink ancient notions that are the building blocks of social constructs regarding the nature of disease and its treatment, and the prejudices encountered by people who suffer from illness, as it forces collective rethinking about early diagnosis and prophylaxis of diseases. Therefore, an unprecedented opportunity exists to benefit from both the nanotechnology revolution and the revolutionary social change that recognizes individual human potential under international laws preventing discrimination against people with disabilities at the same time. Miraculous developments that sound like science fiction to those people who eagerly anticipate these medical products, combined with the emerging social system for implementing rights of people with disabilities will reshape civil society - permanently.