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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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Other Authors: Kaiser, Mario. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kurath, Monika. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Maasen, Sabine. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 27
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2834-1
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505 0 |a 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. 
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