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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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
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
Subjects:
History.
Philosophy and science.
Sociology.
Ethics.
History of Science.
Philosophy of Science.
Sociology, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2834-1
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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