Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective
on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to
green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP.
This book is an excellent critique of the current risk-based
approach to technology. By exploring the philosophical
underpinnings and the practical applications of current policy on
science and technology, Chapman exposes the serious flaws in
allowing economic considerations to dominate the agenda in this
area. Her proposals for reform are expertly constructed and deserve
urgent and serious consideration by policy-makers.Dr Stuart
Parkinson, Executive Director, Scientists for Global
Responsibility. In this important book Anne Chapman argues that
decisions about technology should answer a republican question:
what kind of public world should we create through technology?
Democratizing Technology deserves to be read widely. John ONeill,
Professor of Political Economy, University of Manchester, UK A
welcome addition to the new, more empirical and applied literature
in philosophy of technology. This book will be essential reading
for a variety of scholars and for the general reader intent on
understanding, and criticizing, our chemically made world.Andrew
Light, Interim Director, Program on the Environment, University of
Washington, US What is technology? How do humans use it to build
and modify the world? What are the relationships between
technology, science, economics and democratic governance? What, if
any, are our ethical and political responsibilities and choices in
how we develop, deploy and control technology in democratic states?
Democratizing Technology sets out to answer these questions.
Focusing on the most widespread and pervasive technology -
chemicals - this groundbreaking volume peels apart the critical
technology debate to look at the relationship between humans,
technology and the biological world. Attention is given to the
immensely important new regulations, REACH (Registration,
Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals), the EUs
largest ever legal framework, discussing the problems that are
likely to occur in REACHs reliance on risk assessment methods and
suggesting an alternative way forward for the regulation of
chemicals. Providing much-needed clarity and insight into the heart
of key debates in science and technology, risk analysis and
mitigation, and domestic and international law, this volume arrives
as a breath of fresh air.
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