{"product_id":"9789400730779","title":"Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGoverning Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKaiser, Mario; Kurath, Monika; Maasen, Sabine; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ethics have turned their attention to this growing field’s implications. In the course of these assessment efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged – a phenomenon the editors define as assessment regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the variety of organizations, methods, and actors involved in the evaluation and regulation of emerging nanotechnologies, the assessment activities comply with an overarching scientific and political imperative: Innovations are only welcome if they are assessed against the criteria of safety, sustainability, desirability, and acceptability. So far, such deliberations and reflections have played only a subordinate role. This book argues that with the rise of the nanotechnology assessment regime, however, things have changed dramatically: Situated at the crossroads of democratizing science and technology, good governance, and the quest for sustainable innovations, the assessment regime has become constitutive for technological development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributions in this book explore and critically analyse nanotechnology’s assessment regime: To what extent is it constitutive for technology in general, for nanotechnology in particular? What social conditions render the regime a phenomenon sui generis? And what are its implications for science and society?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-03-14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789400730779\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-90-481-2834-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 314.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45578439884940,"sku":"9789400730779","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789400730779.jpg?v=1767148155","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789400730779","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}