In the field of nanomedicine, the development of targeted drug delivery aims to design more effective delivery systems that directly target cancer cells and tumours. The development of transdermal delivery mechanisms is promising. At the same time, these areas of research raise profound social and ethical questions and are tied to significant transformations in the nature of contemporary healthcare and personal subjectivity. Socio- political consideration of these issues is shaped by a wider set of debates concerning the societal dimensions of nanotechnology. In this paper we report findings from an interdisciplinary research project uilising semi-structured interviews with key-informants engaged in cancer research and health-care. We identified narrative constracts that shaped participants' responses to and understandings of novel nanomedicines. This analysis contributes to a growing body of literature on the social and ethical aspects of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, providing evidence for the engagement of publics in the early stage of technological developments.

在纳米医学领域，靶向药物递送的开发旨在设计直接靶向癌细胞和肿瘤的更有效的递送系统。透皮递送机制的发展是有希望的。同时，这些研究领域提出了深刻的社会和道德问题，并与当代医疗保健和个人主观性的本质转变发生了联系。对这些问题的社会政治考虑是由有关纳米技术的社会层面的广泛辩论所决定的。在本文中，我们报告了一个跨学科研究项目的发现，该项目采用对从事癌症研究和卫生保健的关键信息进行半结构式访谈的方式。我们确定了塑造参与者的叙事契约 对新型纳米药物的反应和理解。这种分析有助于发展有关纳米技术和纳米医学的社会和伦理方面的文献，从而为公众参与技术发展的早期阶段提供证据。