Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development

by Cozzens, Susan E.; Wetmore, Jameson M.

• ISBN13: 9789048196142
• ISBN10: 9048196140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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 is 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 the nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, but policymakers and participatory processes can invent newly invented institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.

Table of Contents

Dimensions of Nano Fairness
Contexts of Equity: Thinking About Organizational and Technoscience Contexts for Gender Equity in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology	p. 3
Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity	p. 23
Potential Implications for Equity in the Nanotechnology Workforce in the U.S.	p. 47
Exploring Societal Impact of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping	p. 69
Ableism and Favoritism for Abilities Governance, Ethics and Studies: New Tools for Nanoscale and Nanoscale-enabled Science and Technology Governance	p. 89
i Will Go Further	p. 105
Uneven Structures
Nanotechnology and the Extension and Transformation of Inequity	p. 109
Nanotechnology and the Sixth Technological Revolution	p. 127
Innovation, Growth, and Inequality: Plausible Scenarios of Wage Disparities in a World with Nanotechnologies	p. 145
Metropolitan Development of Nanotechnology: Concentration or Dispersion?	p. 165
The Role of Organized Workers in the Regulation of Nanotechnologies	p. 181
ETUC Resolution on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials	p. 199
Equalizing Processes
Materializing Nano Equity: Lessons from Design	p. 209
Public Perceptions of Fairness in NBIC Technologies	p. 231
Equity and Participation in Decisions: What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology in Kenya?	p. 251
Nanotechnology: How Prepared Is Uganda?	p. 271
Nanotechnology and the World System
Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries	p. 277
Science Policy and Social Inclusion: Advances and Limits of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy	p. 291
The Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development: The Case of Brazil	p. 309
Open Access Nanotechnology for Developing Countries: Lessons from Open Source Software	p. 331
Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia	p. 349
How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries?	p. 379
Technical Education and Indian Society: The Role of Values	p. 393
Lessons for Action
Keeping the Dream Alive: What ELSI-Research Might Learn from Parliamentary Technology Assessment	p. 409
Nanotech Ethics and the Policymaking Process: Lessons Learned for Advancing Equity and Equality in Emerging Nanotechnologies	p. 423
Building Equity and Equality into Nanotechnology	p. 433
Index	p. 447
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