title: [Meta-legal paradigms of nanomedicine].
abstract: Nanomedicine is the Nanotechnology applied in the field of Medicine. Nanomedicine includes a wide range of technologies applied to devices, materials, medical procedures and treatment modalities are being developed, in some cases, through the convergence of living and nonliving materials. The developments in this scientific field are the prelude of a new era in health where Nanotechnology will provide, in a short period of time, substantial benefits for the general welfare and health of people with serious and incurable diseases using other more traditional medical treatments. This is, in brief, the object of this research that has been focused in the study of the ethical-legal paradigms that should inform the developments and expectations generated by medical applications of Nanotechnology.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Derecho, UNED.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pérez Alvarez
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*