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  1. Biotechnology and nanotechnology risk assessment [electronic resource] : minding and managing the potential threats around us

    Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, c2011.

    Evolving bio and nanotechnologies encompass a vast and diverse assortment of products and materials that have the potential to bring about major changes in our lives. However, remarkable benefits can all too often be accompanied by potential detrimental consequences. Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment: Minding and Managing the Potential Threats around Us presents contemporary research efforts, public policy and regulatory aspects, and ethical issues focused on recognizing, understanding, and responding to these consequences in terms of human and environmental impacts. This includes topics relevant to manufactured nanoparticle toxicity in relation to human, animal, and microorganism exposure, consequent environmental fate and impacts, and downstream effects on other emerging nano/bio industries. Emerging tools and modeling approaches for enhanced understanding of bio and nanotechnology risks are presented in order to provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of nano/biotechnology risk assessment.

    Online ACS Publications

  2. Los riesgos de la nanotecnología

    Bermejo Bermejo, Marta
    Madrid : CSIC : Los Libros de la Catarata, [2017]

    Online Digitalia

  3. Governing future technologies : nanotechnology and the rise of an assessment regime

    Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2010.

    Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive 'assessment hype, ' unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ethics have turned their attention to this growing field's implications. In the course of these assessment efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged - a phenomenon the editors define as assessment regime. Despite the variety of organizations, methods, and actors involved in the evaluation and regulation of emerging nanotechnologies, the assessment activities comply with an overarching scientific and political imperative: innovations are only welcome if they are assessed against the criteria of safety, sustainability, desirability, and acceptability. So far, such deliberations and reflections have played only a subordinate role. This book argues that with the rise of the nanotechnology assessment regime, however, things have changed dramatically: situated at the crossroads of democratizing science and technology, good governance, and the quest for sustainable innovations, the assessment regime has become constitutive for technological development. The contributions in this book explore and critically analyse nanotechnology's assessment regime: to what extent is it constitutive for technology in general, for nanotechnology in particular; what social conditions render the regime a phenomenon sui generis; and, what are its implications for science and society.

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