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The social life of nanotechnology /

"This volume shows how nanotechnology takes on a wide range of socio-historically specific meanings in the context of globalization, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and in a variety of discussions wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harthorn, Barbara Herr, 1951-, Mohr, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Science that pays for itself: nanotechnology and the discourse of science policy reform / Matthew N. Eisler
  • When space travel and nanotechnology met at the fountains of paradise / W. Patrick Mccray
  • Conferences and the emergence of nanoscience / Cyrus C.M. Mody
  • Is nanoscale collaboration meeting nanotechnology's social challenge? A call for nano-normalcy / Christopher Newfield
  • Working for next to nothing: labor in the global nanoscientific community / Mikael Johansson
  • Nanotechnology as industrial policy: China and the United States / Richard P. Appelbaum [and others]
  • The Chinese century? China's move towards Indigenous innovation: some policy implications / Rachel Parker and Richard P. Appelbaum
  • Nanotechnologies and upstream public engagement: dilemmas, debates, and prospects? / Adam Corner and Nick Pidgeon
  • Different uses, different responses: exploring emergent cultural values through public deliberation / Jennifer Rogers-Brown [and others]
  • News media frame novel technologies in a familiar way: nanotechnology, applications, and progress / Erica Lively [and others]
  • Public responses to nanotechnology: risks to the social fabric? / William R. Freudenburg and Mary B. Collins.