ISBN:
9789048128341
,
9789048128334
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXIII, 314p, digital)
Series Statement:
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 27
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Governing future technologies
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Science History
;
Ethics
;
Science Philosophy
;
Sociology
;
Social Sciences
;
Science History
;
Ethics
;
Science Philosophy
;
Sociology
;
Social sciences
;
Nanotechnologie
;
Steuerung
;
Technikbewertung
;
Nanotechnologie
;
Steuerung
;
Technikbewertung
Abstract:
〈P〉A multiplicity of stakeholders have begun to analyze the implications of nanotechnology. In the course of these efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged, one defined in this book as assessment regime, which explores and critically analyses this regime.〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Governing Future Technologies; Part I Going Nano: Opportunities and Risks; Reinventing a Laboratory: Nanotechnology as a Resource for Organizational Change; 1 Introduction: Scientific Fields and Organizations; 2 Formation and Crises: History of a Testing Institute; 3 Shift: Addressing the Nano-Scale; 3.1 Economy of Promises and Performance Indicators; 3.2 Organizational Alignment: Recruitment, NANO 1 and NANO 2; 4 Differentiation: Strategies to Rethink Testing; 4.1 Reduction and Devaluation of Testing
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 Reinterpretation and Repositioning of Testing4.3 Re-Valorization of Service; 5 Integration: Shaping the Contours of Nanotechnology; 5.1 ELSI, EHS, and Finance: The Case of the NanoConvention; 5.2 Public Understanding of Science: The Case of NanoPubli; 6 Conclusions; 7 Epilogue; References; Negotiating Nano: From Assessing Risks to Disciplinary Transformations; 1 Introduction: Identity Discourses and Assessment Dilemmas; 2 Strategies, Facing Problematic Identities; 2.1 Relegation to the Future; 2.2 Evading the Problem by Definitions and Representations
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3 Self-Reflection in the Social Sciences and Ethics2.4 Asking the Public; 2.5 Delegation to Toxicological Risk Research; 3 Transformation Processes in Toxicology; 3.1 The Significance of Doing ''Nano'': Negotiating Novelty; 3.2 The Significance of Being ''nano'': Reflections on Function and Expectations; 4 Assessment Transforming Disciplines?; 4.1 Toxicology as a Nanoscience?; 4.2 Disciplines Assessed; References; Nanoscience is 100 Years Old. The Defensive Appropriation of the Nanotechnology Discourse within the Disciplinary Boundaries of Crystallography
Description / Table of Contents:
1 Strong Traditions and Weak Positions in Crystallography2 Discursive Limits at the Nanoscale; 3 Networking a New Identity; 4 Conclusions; References; Part II Making Sense: Visions, Images, and Video Games; From Nano-Convergence to NBIC-Convergence: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it; 1 Introduction; 2 The Rhetoric of Nano-Convergence; 2.1 Convergence-as-Fact; 2.2 Convergence-by-Higher-Necessity; 2.3 Convergence-as-Opportunity; 3 NBIC-Convergence; 3.1 From Nano-Convergence to NBIC-Convergence; 3.2 The Ideas and Articulations of NBIC-Convergence
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3 The Friends of NBIC-Convergence4 Analysis: Convergence as a Teleological Concept; 5 Conclusion: New Challenges for STS; References; Deliberating Visions: The Case of Human Enhancement in the Discourse on Nanotechnology and Convergence; 1 Nanotechnology and the Convergence of Visions; 2 Aprs La Lutte: The Return of Posthumanism; 3 The Politics of Nanoconvergence and Human Enhancement; 4 Shortcomings and Obstacles in the Deliberation of Visions; References; Visual Dynamics: The Defuturization of the Popular Nano-Discourse as an Effect of Increasing Economization; 1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
2 Futuristic Images and Contemporary Images of the Future
Note:
Includes index
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-2834-1
URL:
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