Drug delivery agent is a medium which facilitates in the delivery of a pharmaceutical compound to humans or animals.
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Critical Role of Bionanotechnology in Healthcare and Society
Shivani Choudhary (Illinois Institute of technology, USA), Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of technology, USA), and Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch044
Abstract
Bionanotechnology is a combination of three terms: “bios” meaning “life,” “nano” (origin in Greek) meaning “dwarf,” and “technologia” (origin in Greek—comprised of “techne” meaning “craft” and “logia” meaning “saying”), which is a broad term dealing with the use and knowledge of humanity’s tools and crafts. Bionanotechnology is a term coined for the area of study where nanotechnology has applications in the field of biology and medical sciences. Healthcare is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the “care for the general health of a person, community, etc., especially that is provided by an organized health service.” Moreover, Healthcare can also be defined as the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions1.