The collection below is presented as an aid to
the researcher of nanoscience and nanotechnology
and related issues.
Main Reports
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"Societal
Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
by Mihail C. Roco
A report for the
National Science Foundation's National
Nanotechnology Initiative
Source:
"NSF and NNI Reports"
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"Nanoscience
and nanotechnologies:
opportunities and uncertainties"
Source:
Study Homepage
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Study Chair: Prof Ann
Dowling FREng FRS, University of Cambridge
Working Group:
Prof Roland Clift OBE FREng - University
of Surrey and Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution.
Dr Nicole Grobert - Royal Society Dorothy
Hodgkin Research Fellow based at the University
of Oxford
Dame Deirdre Hutton CBE - National
Consumer Council
Prof Ray Oliver FREng - Strategic
Technology Group at ICI plc.
Baroness Onora O'Neill CBE FBA FMedSci -
Newnham College, University of Cambridge.
Prof John Pethica FRS - Trinity College,
Dublin.
Prof Nick Pidgeon - Centre for
Environmental Risk at the University of East
Anglia.
Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE - Forum for the
Future and UK Sustainable Development
Commission.
Prof John Ryan - University of Oxford and
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on
Bionanotechnology.
Prof Anthony Seaton CBE FMedSci -
Aberdeen University
Prof Saul Tendler - University of
Nottingham.
Prof Mark Welland FREng FRS - Nanoscale
Science Laboratory in the Department of
Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in
Nanotechnology.
Prof Roger Whatmore FREng - Cranfield
University
A report on a study by
The Royal
Society and
The Royal
Academy of Engineering
"Future
Technologies, Today's Choices:
Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and
Robotics;
A technical, political and institutional map of
emerging technologies."
by Alexander Huw Arnall,
Imperial College,
University of London
A report for the
Greenpeace Environmental Trust
Source: Greenpeace
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Topical Reports
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"Health Significance of Nanotechnologies"
A report of the Health Council of the
Netherlands
Source:
Health Council of the Netherlands
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"A Review of
Current Practices in the Nanotechnology
Industry"
A report of the International Council on
Nanotechnology (ICON) at Rice University’s
Center for Biological and Environmental
Nanotechnology
Source:
ICON
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"Regulation of
Nanoscale Materials under the Toxic Substances
Control Act"
A report of the American Bar Association
(ABA)
Source:
ABA
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"Nanotech Rx -
Medical Applications of Nano-scale Technologies:
What Impact on Marginalized Communities?"
A report of the ETC Group
Source:
ETC Group
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"Nanotechnology, Water & Development"
by Thembela Hillie
Mohan Munasinghe
Mbhuti Hlope
Yvani Deraniyagala
A report of The Meridian Institute
Source:
The Merdian
Institute
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"Converging
Technologies – Shaping the Future of European
Societies"
by Alfred Nordmann
A report of the European Commission
Source:
Website for
the September 2004 Conference Converging
Technologies for a Diverse Europe
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"The Ethics
and Politics of Nanotechnology"
A report of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Source:
UNESCO
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"We Need to
Talk: The Future of Nanotechnologies"
by Volker Türk, Project co-ordinator, Wuppertal
Institute, Germany
Hugh Knowles, Forum for the Future, UK
Prof Dr Holger Wallbaum, triple innova,
Germany
Dr Hans Kastenholz, EMPA, Switzerland
A joint project of The Wuppertal Institute for
Climate
Environment and
Energy Forum for the Future
triple innova
EMPA
Source:
Nanologue
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Papers
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Discovering the Nanoscale
Edited by Davis Baird, Alfred Nordmann & Joachim
Schummer
Amsterdam: IOS
Press. 2004
A collection of
nano-
Science and Technology (nanoSTS)
papers from conferences held in Germany and the
USA. Table of Contents reproduced from
Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Introduction (pp. 1-5)
Davis Baird, Alfred Nordmann & Joachim
Schummer
Part I:
Configuring the Disciplines
Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale Research (pp. 9-20)
Joachim Schummer
A Hierarchical Architecture for Nano-scale
Science and Technology: Taking Stock of the
Claims about Science Made by Advocates of NBIC
Convergence (pp. 21-33)
George Khushf
Unbounded Technologies: Working Through Technological Reductionism of Nanotechnology (pp. 35-50)
Jan C. Schmidt
Molecular Disjunctions: Staking Claims at the Nanoscale (pp. 51-62)
Alfred Nordmann
Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology as a Trading Zone: Results from a Pilot Project (pp. 63-73)
Michael E. Gorman, James F. Groves & Jeff Shrager
Part II: Searching for Theories of the Nanoscale
Nanoscale Technology: A Two-Sided Challenge for Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (pp. 77-91)
Pieter E. Vermaas
Nanoscience and the Janus-Faced Character of Simulations (pp. 93-100)
Johannes Lenhard
Von Neumann, Self-Reproduction and the Constitution of Nanophenomena (pp. 101-115)
Otávio Bueno
Part III: Imaging the Nanoscale
How Probe Microscopists Became Nanotechnologists (pp. 119-133)
Cyrus C. M. Mody
Nanotechnology and the Negotiation of Novelty (pp. 135-144)
Arne Hessenbruch
Probing the History of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (pp. 145-156)
Davis Baird & Ashley Shew
The Epistemology of the Very Small (pp. 157-163)
Joseph C. Pitt
Images in NanoScience/Technology (pp. 165-169)
Chris Robinson
Part IV: Communicating Nanotechnology
The Rhetoric of Nanotechnology (pp. 173-192)
David M. Berube
Nanomedicine and Space: Discursive Orders of Mediating Innovations (pp. 193-202)
Andreas Lösch
Shrinking the 'Ecological Footprint' with NanoTechnoScience? (pp. 203-208)
Astrid E. Schwarz
Dissolution of the Nature-Technology Dichotomy?
Perspectives on Nanotechnology from an Everyday
Understanding of Nature (pp. 209-213)
Gregor Schiemann
Part V: Examining the Politics of
Nanotechnology
The End of Pure Science: Science Policy from Bayh-Dole to the NNI (pp. 217-230)
Ann Johnson
Grand Visions and Lilliput Politics: Staging the Exploration of the 'Endless Frontier' (pp. 231-246)
Hans Glimell
Deciding the Future of Nanotechnologies: Legal Perspectives on Issues of Democracy and Technology (pp. 247-255)
Jody A. Roberts
The Expert's Role in Nanoscience and Technology (pp. 257-266)
Edward Munn Sanchez
Part VI: Exploring Ethical Dimensions
Military, Arms Control, and Security Aspects of Nanotechnology (pp. 269-277)
Jürgen Altmann & Mark A. Gubrud
Perception of Risks and Nanotechnology (pp. 279-284)
Emmanuelle Schuler
Nano-Ethics (pp. 285-300)
Wade L. Robison
Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale From an Ethical Point of View (pp. 301-310)
James H. Moor & John Weckert
Bibliography of Studies on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (pp. 311-316)
Joachim Schummer
Index of Names (pp. 317-319)
"National
Discourses on Democratizing Nanotechnology"
by Christopher Toumey
Quaderni No.
61 (Autumn 2006)
A review of competing British and
American styles of democratic discourse on
nanotechnology.
Source:
Quaderni: La revue de la communication (en
français)
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"The Use
of Emergent Technologies for Enhancing Human
Performance: Are We Prepared to Address the
Ethical and Policy Issues?"
by George Khushf
Public Policy & Practice
Vol.
4, No. 2
(November 2005)
A paper describing a stage change in the
integration of nanotechnology and NBIC into
society.
Source:
Public Policy & Practice
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"Narratives
for Nanotech: Anticipating Public Reactions to
Nanotechnology"
by Christopher Toumey
Techné Vol.
8, No. 2
(Winter 2004)
A paper regarding the roles that fiction and
history play in the assessment of
nanotechnology's likely future impact.
Source:
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
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"Apostolic
Succession: Does Nanotechnology Descend from
Richard Feynman's 1959 Talk?"
by Christopher Toumey
Engineering & Science
Vol. 68, No.
1 (2005)
Source:
Engineering & Science
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"Building
Nanoliteracy in the University and Beyond"
by
Christopher Toumey and Davis Baird
Nature Biotechnology
Vol. 24, No. 6, pp 721-722 (June 2006)
A paper on USC's Nanosemester and public
outreach projects.
Source:
Nature Biotechnology
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"Societal and
Ethical Interactions with Nanotechnology ("SEIN")
– An Introduction"
by Davis Baird and Tom Vogt
Nanotechnology Law & Business
Vol 1, No. 4,
pp. 391-296
Source:
Nanotechnology Law & Business
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"Dialogue on
Nanotech: The South Carolina Citizens' School of
Nanotechnology"
By C. Toumey, J. R. Reynolds & A. Aggelopoulou
Journal of Business Chemistry
Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 3-8 (Sept. 2006)
A paper on the South Carolina Citizen's School
of Nanotechnology.
Source:
Journal of Business Chemistry
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"Science and
Democracy"
By Christopher Toumey
Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.
6-7
A paper on the South Carolina Citizen's School
of Nanotechnology.
Source:
Nature Nanotechnology
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"News Narratives about
Nano: How Journalists and the News Media Are
Framing Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Initiatives and Issues"
By Lowndes F. Stephens
Presented at
the Imaging and Imagining Nanoscience &
Engineering Conference at USC, March 4-7, 2004
A study of the formation of public discourse on
nanotechnology through media, with historical
analogues.
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