3. Critical mapping of existing approaches to nanotechnology ethics

The overview we are proposing is based on the typology established by sociologist Brice Laurent in his book Les politiques des nanotechnologies. . The modes of intervention of NST ethics are mainly of two types, he explains: "ethics-truth" and "ethics-politics".

This is not a literature review, nor is it a review of ethical theories (such a review would require an equally theoretical or meta-ethical discussion, and would take us off the subject of NST). The aim is to...