Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development [electronic resource] /
Cozzens, Susan E.editor.
Wetmore, Jameson.editor.
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.
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Preface; Introduction; Contents; About the Authors; Part I Dimensions of Nano Fairness; 1 Contexts of Equity: Thinking About Organizational and Technoscience Contexts for Gender Equity in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology; 2 Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity; 3 Potential Implications for Equity in the Nanotechnology Workforce in the U.S.; 4 Exploring Societal Impact of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping; 5 Ableism and Favoritism for Abilities Governance, Ethics and Studies: New Tools for Nanoscale and Nanoscale-enabled Science and Technology Governance
6 i Will Go FurtherPart II Uneven Structures; 7 Nanotechnology and the Extension and Transformation of Inequity; 8 Nanotechnology and the Sixth Technological Revolution; 9 Innovation, Growth, and Inequality: Plausible Scenarios of Wage Disparities in a World with Nanotechnologies; 10 Metropolitan Development of Nanotechnology: Concentration or Dispersion?; 11 The Role of Organized Workers in the Regulation of Nanotechnologies; 12 ETUC Resolution on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials; Part III Equalizing Processes; 13 Materializing Nano Equity: Lessons from Design
14 Public Perceptions of Fairness in NBIC Technologies15 Equity and Participation in Decisions: What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology in Kenya?; 16 Nanotechnology: How Prepared Is Uganda?; Part IV Nanotechnology and the World System; 17 Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries; 18 Science Policy and Social Inclusion: Advances and Limits of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy; 19 The Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development: The Case of Brazil
20 Open Access Nanotechnology for Developing Countries: Lessons from Open Source Software21 Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia; 22 How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries?; 23 Technical Education and Indian Society: The Role of Values; Part V Lessons for Action; 24 Keeping the Dream Alive: What ELSI-Research Might Learn from Parliamentary Technology Assessment; 25 Nanotech Ethics and the Policymaking Process: Lessons Learned for Advancing Equity and Equality in Emerging Nanotechnologies
26 Building Equity and Equality into NanotechnologyIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social sciences.
Nanotechnology.
Ethics.
Quality of life.
Social Sciences, general.
Nanotechnology.
Ethics.
Quality of Life Research.