The Role of Nanomedicine Ethics in Biomedical Researches

Nanotechnology is the point of intersection of the sciences of engineering, physics, biology, medicine and chemistry, and acts to usilize these sciences in order to construct new products. Nanotechnology researches has recently been intensified with the development of Nano researches in medicine, which attempts to provide medicines and therapeutic methods based on the principles governing nanotechnology with the goal of human health and well-being. This study aimed to identify the main ethical issues in Nanotechnology researches.
In this review study, related articles were retrieved and analyzed porposfully by searching the keywords of "Nanotechnology or Nanomedicine" and "Bioethics or Nonoethics" and "Risk or Safety" in academic databases.
Findings: The ethical issues in the area of nanomedicine researchs that should be considered are a subset of the ethical principles wich generally considered in bioethics, but because of the specific properties of nanoparticles including the unknown side effects and their variation highlites the focus of these principles regarding the assumptions related consequences of the nanomedicine. The most important known ethical issues included respect for autonomy, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, harmfulnessless and control human ability, justice and access in relation to the role of ethics in nanomedicine.
Ethical principles in biological researches should be implemented in all three stages of prevention, diagnosis and treatment in order to protect the volunteer human subjects participating in the advancement of knowledge.