L’artificio invisibile. Profili bioetici delle nanotecnologie fra terapia e Human Enhancement

Abstract

Advances in nanotechnology applied in medicine determines the same ethical issues examined by bioethics. The originality of nanomedicine, however, is the possibility to test a relationship between nature and artifice by which the first is confused with the latter in an imperceptible way, by posing ethical and anthropological questions about identity of human nature and the limits of our powers of intervention. The Author analyzes the therapeutic possibilities of nanotechnology, by highlighting the risks, especially related to the perspectives of “enhancement” rather than simple care, of human nature.