Technoscience in Progress. Managing the Uncertainty of Nanotechnology - Hardcover

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The rush to explore the potential and possibilities of nanotechnology in a wide array of applications and disciplines has placed it in the awkward position of having no established cross-discipline definition, and no consistent, universal vocabulary to create that definition. This collection of essays contends that such a vocabulary needs to go beyond the scientific and technical to properly account for the numerous approaches, participants, and uses for nanotechnology. Topics include managing the uncertainty of nanotechnology across boundaries and scales; risk, responsibility, rights, regulation, and representation of the value chain of nano-products, the evolution of the field, the ethics of 'nanorisks,' and the introduction of nanotechnology as a societal experiment. Editors Arnaldi and Lorenzet (Interdepartmental Research Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification, U. of Padua, Italy), Russo (Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain, U. of Kent, UK), and 15 co-authors contributed to the collection. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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