Science and engineering, industry and politics, environmentalists and transhumanists are Discovering the Nanoscale. Policy makers are demanding explicit consideration of ethical, legal, and social aspects, and popular books are explaining the achievements and promises of nanoscience. It may therefore seem surprising that this is the first collection of studies that considers nanoscience and nanotechnologies from the critical perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS). However, when one appreciates that such a critical perspective needs to be historically informed it often involves intimate acquaintance with the research process. Accordingly, this book on the historical, analytical, and ethical study of nanoscience and -technology has come together in a period of several years. Though it presents only first results, these results for the most part stem from sustained investigations of nanoscience and nanotechnologies and of the contexts that are shaping their development. Nanoscience and technologies are developing very quickly, and for this reason both pose a challenge to the more reflective approach commonly taken by science studies, while at the same time requiring the perspective provided by science studies scholars. Many are convinced that nothing meaningful can be said about the social and ethical implications of nanotechnologies at this early stage, but one can already see what programmatic attitudes go into nanoscale research, what metaphors are shaping it, and what conception of nature is implicit in its vision. It is also often assumed that in order to consider all aspects of nanotechnologies it is sufficient to know a bit of the science and to have some ethical intuitions. This collection of papers establishes that one also needs to appreciate nanoscale research and development in the larger context of the changing relations of science, technology, and society.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
Author(s): Davis Baird, Alfred Nordmann, Joachim Schummer
Publisher: Ios Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 303
Tags: Специальные дисциплины;Наноматериалы и нанотехнологии;
Introduction......Page 7
Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale Research......Page 12
A Hierarchical Architecture for Nano-scale Science and Technology: Taking Stock of the Claims About Science Made By Advocates of NBIC Convergence......Page 24
Unbounded Technologies: Working Through Technological Reductionism of Nanotechnology......Page 37
Molecular Disjunctions: Staking Claims at the Nanoscale......Page 53
Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology as a Trading Zone: Results from a Pilot Project......Page 65
Nanoscale Technology: A Two-Sided Challenge for Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics......Page 76
Nanoscience and the Janus-Faced Character of Simulations......Page 91
Von Neumann, Self-Reproduction and the Constitution of Nanophenomena......Page 99
How Probe Microscopists Became Nanotechnologists......Page 114
Nanotechnology and the Negotiation of Novelty......Page 129
Probing the History of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy......Page 139
The Epistemology of the Very Small......Page 151
Images in NanoScience/Technology......Page 158
The Rhetoric of Nanotechnology......Page 163
Nanomedicine and Space: Discursive Orders of Mediating Innovations......Page 183
Shrinking the ‘Ecological Footprint’ with NanoTechnoScience?......Page 193
Dissolution of the Nature-Technology Dichotomy? Perspectives on Nanotechnology from an Everyday Understanding of Nature......Page 199
The End of Pure Science: Science Policy from Bayh-Dole to the NNI......Page 204
Grand Visions and Lilliput Politics: Staging the Exploration of the ‘Endless Frontier’......Page 218
Deciding the Future of Nanotechnologies: Legal Perspectives on Issues of Democracy and Technology......Page 234
The Expert’s Role in Nanoscience and Technology......Page 243
Military, Arms Control, and Security Aspects of Nanotechnology......Page 253
Perception of Risks and Nanotechnology......Page 262
Nano-Ethics......Page 268
Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale From an Ethical Point of View......Page 284
Bibliography of Studies on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology......Page 294
Index of Names......Page 300
