Foreword ...................................................... vii
Caring about the future of the collective.
Monitoring technoscience in the sociology of risk
and science and technology studies (by Ewa Binczyk) ............. 1
A. Starting point ............................................... 3
The modern shape of technoscience ............................ 6
B. Proposals ................................................... 15
Beck's cosmopolitanism and the challenges posed by the risk
society ........................................................ 16
Latour's "politics of nature" .................................. 23
Transformation of the boundary conditions of the public
debate on innovation ........................................... 32
Concrete ways of expanding participation (and their
respective weaknesses) ......................................... 42
The Precautionary Principle, Technology Assessment (ТА)
and select examples of other institutional solutions ........... 48
The macro-ethics of global responsibility ...................... 55
Conclusion ..................................................... 62
Literature ..................................................... 67
Nanotechnology. Assessment and Convergence inside
the Technoscience (by Tomasz Stejrien) ......................... 77
A. Constitution of Nano-Domain as Science and Technology ....... 77
1 The background of technological convergence: From
'normal' to 'post-normal' science ........................... 77
1.1 Theoretical framework of nanotechnology ................ 78
1.2 Methodological aspects of nanotechnology ............... 87
1.3 Dimensions of nanotechnology and the necessity
of modified theory of science .......................... 94
2 Science and society relationship in the case of nano-
domain ...................................................... 99
2.1 Nanotechnology and the concept of a socially
robust science ........................................ 100
2.2 Political background and societal impacts of
nano-domain ........................................... 103
2.3 Nanotechnology and the public opinion: Politics
of nano-images ........................................ 112
B Nanotechnology and Development of Assessment Regime ........ 118
3 General issues of risk assessment by converging
technologies ............................................... 118
4 Nanotechnology: risk assessment and precautionary
principle .................................................. 122
4.1 Characteristics of risk in nanotechnology ............. 125
4.2 Risk management in nanotechnology ..................... 128
4.3 Strategies by nano-risk communication and
nano-visions assessment ............................... 134
C Ethical Aspects: Nano-Safety and Nanotoxicology ............ 142
5 Nano-Safety and Nanotoxicology ............................. 144
6 Ethical, legal and societal implications of
nanotechnology ............................................. 150
7 Nanoethics or explorative philosophy of nanotechnology ..... 160
D Convergence and Nanotechnology Assessment .................. 166
8 Converging technologies: Categories, principles and
fields ..................................................... 166
9 Principle of technological convergence ..................... 173
10 Multidisciplinary framework of nanotechnology
assessment ................................................. 183
References .................................................... 193
Index ......................................................... 203
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