Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Methodology of Technology Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Participatory Technology Assessment. Some Critical Questions

      • Carl Friedrich Gethmann

      Pages 3-13

   3. Post-Normal Science. Science and Governance under Conditions of Complexity

      • Silvio Funtowicz, Jerry Ravetz

      Pages 15-24

   4. Business as Usual: On the Prospects of Normality in Scientific Research

      • Martin Carrier

      Pages 25-31

   5. Rational Technology Assessment as Interdisciplinary Research

      • Michael Decker, Armin Grunwald

      Pages 33-60

   6. To assess rationality before anything else. A remark on the legitimacy of Rational Technology Assessment

      • Rob P. B. Reuzel

      Pages 61-69

3. Technology Assessment as Policy Consulting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Parliament, Paradox and Policy

      • David Cope

      Pages 73-84

   3. The Politics of Technology Assessment

      • Miltos Liakopoulos

      Pages 85-92

4. Participatory Technology Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Toward “lay” participation and co-operative learning in TA, technology policy, and construction of technologies

      • Imre Hronszky

      Pages 95-122

   3. The Role of Scientific Input and Public Participation for Technology Assessment

      • Ortwin Renn

      Pages 123-143

5. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. The Ethics of Technology Assessment in Health Care

      • Albert J. Jovell

      Pages 147-163

   3. Transition Management: a promising policy perspective

      • Jan Rotmans, René Kemp, Marjolein van Asselt

      Pages 165-197

   4. The Inclusion of Stakeholder Perspectives in Integrated Assessment of Climate Change

      • Jeroen van der Sluijs, Penny Kloprogge

      Pages 199-215

6. Back Matter

   Pages 217-217

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Technology Assessment processes can be taken as a paradigm for interdisciplinary research. It is expected that interdisciplinary Technology Assessment is able to find solutions for actual sociopolitical problems that go beyond those expected from one individual scientific discipline alone. The common notion, that for tasks like this different disciplinary perspectives should be brought together, confronts the fact that there is no common notion on how interdisciplinary research should be done. In the present volume European experts of Technology Assessment present their perspectives on interdisciplinary research. Many focus on methodology, policy consulting, and participation of stakeholders, non-experts and citizens. Others present concrete case studies concerning climate change and health care. Each contribution is commented by an other scientist. The result is a discussion-like examination of the connection between interdisciplinarity and the main subjects of Technology Assesment.

• ethics
• health
• interdisciplinarity
• management
• research
• technology
• technology assessment

• Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

  Michael Decker, Friederike Wütscher

Policies and ethics