Nanotalk: Conversations With Scientists and Engineers About Ethics, Meaning, and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology

by Rosalyn W. Berne

Overview

No one really knows where nanotechnology is leading, what its pursuit will mean, and how it may affect human and other forms of life. Nevertheless, its research and development are moving briskly into that unknown. Nanotalk is a book of conversations and explorations with thirty five such nano-research scientists and engineers who share their ideas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135617202
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/31/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	750 KB

About the Author

Rosalyn W. Berne

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction: Narrative and the Voices of Research Scientists and Engineers. Part I: Ethics. The Nanotechnology Revolution. Three Dimensions of Nano Ethics. Part II: Meaning. Conceptual Frameworks, Themes, and Values. Meaning Making. Part III: Belief. New Knowledge and Nature. Imagination, Metaphor, and Science Fiction. Noble Revisited. Conscientious Moral Commitments. Appendices: Methodology and Preliminary Research Findings. History of the Nanotechnology Initiative in the United States. Interview Protocol. 21st Century Nanotechology Research and Development Act.