Nanotechnology and Global Equality

 Content: Front Cover; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Development, Technology and Inequity; 4. Nanotechnology, Development and Inequity; 5. The State of Play; 6. Understanding Nanotechnology; 7. Innovative Capacity; 8. Technological Appropriateness; 9. Approaches to Technological Governance; 10. Conclusions; Appendix A: Justification of Interviewee Nationalities for My Qualitative Study; Appendix B: Health-Related Patent Classifications; Appendix C: Patent Rules; Appendix D: Top 10 Nanotechnologies for the Developing World (Singer et al., 2005). Appendix E: World Bank List of Economies (April 2004)Appendix F: Classification of Countries: Development Assistance Committee List of Aid Recipients,2003 (adapted from OECD, 2003); Appendix G: Thai Key Informant Details; Appendix H: Australian Key Informant Details; Appendix I: Key Informant Biographies (2004); Appendix J: Responses from Thai Nanotechnology Practitioners; Bibliography.
 Abstract:             In this book I argue that the overall trajectory currently pursued through nanotechnology provides little hope for a more equitable world. I base my argument on the failure of nanotechnology\'s development to embody the reflexivity necessary for addressing the legitimate requirements of development. My research aims to place nanotechnology\'s emergence within an historical and global context, and develop a useful interpretive framework through which to assess relevant claims. Furthermore, I seek to synthesise debates about nanotechnology, development and the global South, establish greater clari