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6 Nanotech. L. & Bus. 45 (2009)
Nanomedicine: Issues of Privacy and Informed Consent

handle is hein.journals/nantechlb6 and id is 47 raw text is: Nanomedicine'. Issues of Privacy and Informed Consent Janet Brewer, .D., Psy.D.* & Ogan Gurel, M.D.** Abstract Personal medical information collected by nanotechnological diagnostic methods will strongly implicate privacy concerns of the individual, which must be balanced against the group benefits that could be gained by analysis. The legislative, administrative, and judicial methods of allocating ownership and protecting privacy in other rapidly evolving fields-automobile electronic data recorders and Global Position Satellite tracking-are provided as a basis to predict issues that will arise in the field of medical nanotechnology. The efficacy and drawbacks of the different protection measures implemented with regard to automobiles are discussed, as well as the applicability of similar measures to the medical nanotechnological context. Key Words: nanomedicine, privacy, ethics, nanomedical devices 1. Introduction Hollywood has long-been fascinated with the concepts underlying nanomedicine. In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage,1 a team of scientists shrink a submarine and its crew and place it into the bloodstream of a dying man. More recently Denzel Washington, in the Manchurian Candidate,2 is implanted with a tiny microchip that supplants his own memory. While the gradual convergence of biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and material science has not resulted in miniaturized

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