Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development
Editors: Cozzens, Susan E., Wetmore, Jameson (Eds.)
Free Preview- Covers key societal issues in emerging technology
- Includes practical advice for avoiding negative social consequences
- Offers perspectives on gender, race/ethnicity, and ability status
- Covers nanotechnology in emerging economies
- Includes international and multidisciplinary contributions
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- About this book
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Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.
- Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Contexts of Equity: Thinking About Organizational and Technoscience Contexts for Gender Equity in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
Pages 3-22
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Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity
Pages 23-46
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Potential Implications for Equity in the Nanotechnology Workforce in the U.S.
Pages 47-68
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Exploring Societal Impact of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping
Pages 69-88
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Ableism and Favoritism for Abilities Governance, Ethics and Studies: New Tools for Nanoscale and Nanoscale-enabled Science and Technology Governance
Pages 89-104
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development
- Editors
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- Susan E. Cozzens
- Jameson Wetmore
- Series Title
- Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society
- Series Volume
- 2
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-90-481-9615-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-9615-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-9614-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3383-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXX, 458
- Topics
