Julia Diebol is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She is a recipient of a 2011 Risk Science Summer fellowship. Communities all over the world face challenges of assessing health risks from chemical contaminants and deciding whether cleanup efforts should be undertaken. While many [...]
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In one of the less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block. The Education and Research Centers (ERCs, previously called Educational Resource Centers) were originally established in the mid-1970′s, in direct response to the 1970 Occupational Safety [...]
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Findings published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that many women have had unnecessary surgical procedures done in the name of curing their breast cancer. The study’s results are indeed groundbreaking and are already changing clinical practice. However, I’d like to argue today that these results are also a reminder to [...]
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When my colleagues Graeme Hodge and Di Bowman negotiated the contract for the recently-published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies, they did something rather smart: They included a provision that allows authors to post PDFs of their respective chapters on their personal and institutional websites. The upshot of this is that you can now download and [...]
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Andrew Maynard will speak on Thursday February 10, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm at The University of Michigan Department of Psychology Decision Consortium Seminar. The seminar will be held at 3048 East Hall. We all know that there are consequences to asking some questions – “do you really think that’s a good idea?”, “did you [...]
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The webcast from yesterday’s Nanotechnology – Unplugged discussion is now available to watch here. You can post comments and questions on the event on the Nanotechnology – Unplugged website between now and Feb 15 – the comments and responses will be archived. You can also read more about the panel members’ perspectives in these Risk [...]
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Science Café: Water, Energy and Oil Wednesday, February 9 • 5:30-7:30 pm Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 318 S. Main St. Ann Arbor Recent oil spills have made the risks of oil extraction and use to our aquatic ecosystems very clear. What are the real results of these accidents and how do they affect us? [...]
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Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed. Interestingly though, as I and my co-authors (Martin Philbert and David Warheit) [...]
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Martin Philbert is Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. He will be discussing nanotechnology with Shobita Parthasarathy, Mark Banaszak Holl and Andrew Maynard at Nanotechnology – Unplugged on February 8th, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM. I hesitate to make any pronouncements on where [...]
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Shobita Parthasarathy is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Co-Director of the school’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program. She will be discussing nanotechnology with Martin Philbert, Mark Banaszak Holl and Andrew Maynard at Nanotechnology – Unplugged on February 8th, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM. So far, [...]
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Mark Banaszak Holl is Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan. He is also Associate Vice President-Physical and Natural Sciences, in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He will be discussing nanotechnology with Martin Philbert, [...]
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Next Tuesday, the University of Michigan Risk Science Center is launching a new series of occasional discussions on contemporary public health risk issues. Under the tagline “No PowerPoint, no script; just stimulating conversation”, the Unplugged series will be engaging experts in lively conversation on a range of topics. Each event will be webcast (and archived), [...]
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Andrew Maynard will speak on Wednesday, February 23, 3:30-5:00 at The University of Michigan Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM). The seminar will be held at 300 N. Ingalls, Rm. 7C09 Ann Arbor, MI. Technology innovation is massively expanding the choices we have as individuals and members of an increasingly global society – choices [...]
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As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I can’t – Davos is so complex, diverse and multi-layered that no single account [...]
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The art of regulating nanotechnologies
by Andrew Maynard on February 23, 2011
The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I was participating in a [...]
Tagged as: Nanotechnology, Oversight, Regulation
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