{"product_id":"governing-future-technologies-mario-kaiser-9789048128334","title":"Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime","description":"\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 \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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Kaiser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9048128331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789048128334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/23\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Mario Kaiser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424635339007,"sku":"9789048128334","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a33ec0a1-d169-4a4d-8812-f4336d81c0bc.jpg?v=1761531533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/governing-future-technologies-mario-kaiser-9789048128334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}