Nanotechnology, Risk and Upstream Public Engagement

摘要: This article examines the troubling relationship between emerging technologies, uncertain and intensifying character of technological risk, public concerns. It argues that serious gaps, dislocations distortions exist forces driving novel science technology wider values sensitivities. The argument is developed through detailed examination a recently completed research project on social production reception nanotechnologies (for an extended account, see Kearnes, Macnaghten Wilsdon, 2006).