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Discovering the Nanoscale (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed) Loot Price: R3,875
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Discovering the Nanoscale (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): D Baird, A. Nordmann, J. Schummer

Discovering the Nanoscale (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)

D Baird, A. Nordmann, J. Schummer

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'I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning the history of nanoscale science, and to those who would like to better understand some of the ethical, legal and social dilemmas to what I believe has rightly been labeled the technology of the 21st century.' - Rocky Rawstern, Nanotechnology Now 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.

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Imprint: IOS Press,US
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2004
First published: November 2004
Editors: D Baird • A. Nordmann • J. Schummer
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages: 330
Edition: Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-58603-467-2
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Nanotechnology
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > General
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LSN: 1-58603-467-7
Barcode: 9781586034672

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