Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication

✍ Scribed by Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Clare Wilkinson, Stuart Allan (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 187
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Reporting Science....Pages 12-44
Risk Society and the Media....Pages 45-66
News Coverage of Nanotechnologies....Pages 67-95
Nanotechnologies, Public Knowledge and the Media....Pages 96-125
Scientists’ and Policymakers’ Representations of Nanotechnologies....Pages 126-151
Communication about Nanotechnologies in the Future....Pages 152-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-179

✦ Subjects

Media Studies; Social Policy; Sociology, general; Popular Science in Education; Science, general; Nanotechnology and Microengineering

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perc

📁 Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication

✍ Susanna Hornig Priest 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

From nuclear power to gene therapy to the automobile, history shows that it is useful to encourage and facilitate public discussion about new technologies and their potential dangers. Part of the series Perspectives in Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and R

Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perc

📁 Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication

✍ Susanna Hornig Priest 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

Nano-Publics : Communicating Nanotechnol

📁 Nano-Publics : Communicating Nanotechnology Applications, Risks, and Regulations

✍ Pat J. Gehrke (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Palgrave Pivot 🌐 English

This book discusses the results and implications of a two-year public engagement program on nanotechnology. Led by eleven diverse civic groups across the United States, the program events covered a wide range of applications and sparked robust discussions concerning risk and regulation. Through c

Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental

📁 Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks (Perspectives in Nanotechnology)

✍ Jo Anne Shatkin 📂 Library 📅 2008 🌐 English

Interested in Nanotechnology but Can’t Bear to Wade through Detailed Technical Reports? While reports on nanotechnology by research and marketing firms as well as governmental agencies are comprehensive and insightful, they can often be tedious to read, expensive to procure, and generally unknown t

Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental

📁 Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks

✍ Jo Anne Shatkin 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

Interested in Nanotechnology but Can’t Bear to Wade through Detailed Technical Reports? While reports on nanotechnology by research and marketing firms as well as governmental agencies are comprehensive and insightful, they can often be tedious to read, expensive to procure, and generally unkn

Nanotechnology: risk, ethics and law

📁 Nanotechnology: risk, ethics and law

✍ Geoffrey Hunt, Michael D. Mehta 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Earthscan 🌐 English

Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie i