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Technoscience in progress : managing the uncertainty of nanotechnology
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- Summary
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Nanotechnology seems to escape boundaries and definitions. This title adds to the collective effort of charting the multiple and heterogeneous dimensions that characterize nanotechnology, by analyz...
Nanotechnology seems to escape boundaries and definitions. This title adds to the collective effort of charting the multiple and heterogeneous dimensions that characterize nanotechnology, by analyzing the numerous modalities through which different stakeholders and actors provide definitions, attribute meaning and sense to nanoenabled innovations.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Simone Arnaldi, Andrea Lorenzet and Federica Russo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- ISBNs
- 6612298162, 128229816X, 9786612298165, 6000015143, 1607504413, 1607500221
- OCLC
- ocn491261583
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Title page; Contents; Introduction. Managing the Uncertainty of Nanotechnology Across Boundaries and Scales; Beyond Regulation. Three Questions and One Proposal for Public Deliberation; The Challenges of "Upstream" Communication and Public Engagement for Irish Nanotechnology; Risk, Responsibility, Rights, Regulation and Representation in the Value Chain of Nano-Products; Emerging Strategies and Coordination in Nanocoating Innovation; Future Available? Fiction and Nonfiction in Scenarios About Nanotechnology
- Appreciation and Anticipation in the Evolution of the Nano-Field - A Case for Systemic ForesightNanotechnology and the Global South: Exploratory Views on Characteristics, Perceptions and Paradigms; Controlling the Ethics of Nanorisks; The Introduction of Nanotechnology as a Societal Experiment; Author Index