Discovering the nanoscale

Introduction......Page 7
Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale Research......Page 12
A Hierarchical Architecture for Nano-scale Science and Technology: Taking Stock of the Claims About Science Made By Advocates of NBIC Convergence......Page 24
Unbounded Technologies: Working Through Technological Reductionism of Nanotechnology......Page 37
Molecular Disjunctions: Staking Claims at the Nanoscale......Page 53
Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology as a Trading Zone: Results from a Pilot Project......Page 65
Nanoscale Technology: A Two-Sided Challenge for Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics......Page 76
Nanoscience and the Janus-Faced Character of Simulations......Page 91
Von Neumann, Self-Reproduction and the Constitution of Nanophenomena......Page 99
How Probe Microscopists Became Nanotechnologists......Page 114
Nanotechnology and the Negotiation of Novelty......Page 129
Probing the History of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy......Page 139
The Epistemology of the Very Small......Page 151
Images in NanoScience/Technology......Page 158
The Rhetoric of Nanotechnology......Page 163
Nanomedicine and Space: Discursive Orders of Mediating Innovations......Page 183
Shrinking the ‘Ecological Footprint’ with NanoTechnoScience?......Page 193
Dissolution of the Nature-Technology Dichotomy? Perspectives on Nanotechnology from an Everyday Understanding of Nature......Page 199
The End of Pure Science: Science Policy from Bayh-Dole to the NNI......Page 204
Grand Visions and Lilliput Politics: Staging the Exploration of the ‘Endless Frontier’......Page 218
Deciding the Future of Nanotechnologies: Legal Perspectives on Issues of Democracy and Technology......Page 234
The Expert’s Role in Nanoscience and Technology......Page 243
Military, Arms Control, and Security Aspects of Nanotechnology......Page 253
Perception of Risks and Nanotechnology......Page 262
Nano-Ethics......Page 268
Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale From an Ethical Point of View......Page 284
Bibliography of Studies on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology......Page 294
Index of Names......Page 300