Governing future technologies nanotechnology and the rise of an assessment regime
Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
| Colección: | Sociology of the sciences ;
v. 27. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009455057006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Going ‘Nano’: Opportunities and Risks
- Reinventing a Laboratory: Nanotechnology as a Resource for Organizational Change
- Negotiating Nano: From Assessing Risks to Disciplinary Transformations
- “Nanoscience is 100 Years Old.” The Defensive Appropriation of the Nanotechnology Discourse within the Disciplinary Boundaries of Crystallography
- Making Sense: Visions, Images, and Video Games
- From Nano-Convergence to NBIC-Convergence: “The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it”
- Deliberating Visions: The Case of Human Enhancement in the Discourse on Nanotechnology and Convergence
- Visual Dynamics: The Defuturization of the Popular “Nano-Discourse” as an Effect of Increasing Economization
- Digital Matters: Video Games and the Cultural Transcoding of Nanotechnology
- Assessing ‘Nano’: Repercussions on Research
- Emerging De Facto Agendas Surrounding Nanotechnology: Two Cases Full of Contingencies, Lock-outs, and Lock-ins
- The Risk Debate on Nanoparticles: Contribution to a Normalisation of the Science/Society Relationship?
- Futures Assessed: How Technology Assessment, Ethics and Think Tanks Make Sense of an Unknown Future
- Assessing Dialogue: Governing ‘Nano’ by ELSI
- Why Enrol Citizens in the Governance of Nanotechnology?
- Toward Anticipatory Governance: The Experience with Nanotechnology
- Which Ethics for (of) the Nanotechnologies?
- Deconstructing the Assessment Regime
- Lure of the “Yes”: The Seductive Power of Technoscience
- The Time of Science: Deliberation and the “New Governance” of Nanotechnology
- Converging Technologies – Diverging Reflexivities? Intellectual Work in Knowledge-Risk-Media-Audit Societies.
