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Special Issue on "Nanotech Challenges"



Bibliography of Studies on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Joachim Schummer*

  

The bibliography includes scholarly publications in philosophy, ethics, sociology, and history of nanoscience and nanotechnology (nanoSTS) as well as selected reports. Send suggestions with electronic copies to Joachim Schummer (editor@hyle.org) (Last update: 13 November 2004.)

Scholarly Publications

Altmann, J. & Gubrud M. A.: 2002, ‘Risks from Military Uses of Nanotechnology ’ the Need for Technology Assessment and Preventive Control’, in: M. Roco & R. Tomellini (eds.), Nanotechnology ’ Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications, Luxembourg: European Communities, pp. 144-148.

Altmann, J. & Gubrud, M.A.: 2004, ‘Military, Arms Control, and Security Aspects of Nanotechnology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 269-277.

Altmann, J.: 2004, ‘Military Uses of Nanotechnology: Perspectives and Concerns’, Security Dialogue, 35 (1): 61-79.

Attebery, B.: 2004, ‘Dust, Lust, and Other Messages from the Quantum Wonderland’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 161-172.

Baber, Z.: 2004, ‘>An Undifferentiated Mass of Gray Goo?< Nanotechnology and Society’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24, 10-12.

Baird, D. & Shew, A.: 2004, ‘Probing the History of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 145-156.

Baird, D.; Nordmann, A. & Schummer, J. (eds.): 2004, Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Bensaude-Vincent, B.: 2001, ‘The Construction of a Discipline: Materials Science in the United States’, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 31, 223-248.

Bensaude-Vincent, B.: 2004, ‘Two Cultures of Nanotechnology?’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 65-82.

Berube, D.M.: 2004, ‘The Rhetoric of Nanotechnology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 173-192.

Braun, T.; Schubert, A. & Zsindely, S.: 1997, ‘Nanoscience and nanotechnology on the balance’, Scientometrics, 38, 321-325.

Brown, N.: 2004, ‘Needle on the Real: Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 173-190.

Bueno, O.: 2004, ‘The Drexler-Smalley Debated on Nanotechnology: Incommensurability at Work?’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 83-98.

Bueno, O.: 2004, ‘Von Neumann, Self-Reproduction and the Constitution of Nanophenomena’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 101-115.

Carroll, J.S.: 2001, ‘Social Science Research Methods for Assessing Societal Implications of Nanotechnology’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 188-192.

Coenen, C.: 2004, ‘Nanofuturismus: Anmerkungen zu seiner Relevanz, Analyse und Bewertung’, Technikfolgenabschätzung ’ Theorie und Praxis, 13 (2), 78-85.

Crow, M. & Sarewitz, D.: 2001, ‘Nanotechnology and Societal Transformation’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 45-54.

de Souza e Silva, A.: 2004, ‘The Invisible Imaginary: Museum Spaces, Hybrid Reality and Nanotechnology’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 27-82.

Decker, M.; Fiedeler, U.; Fleischer, Th.: 2004, ‘Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst... zur Definition von Nanotechnologie’, Technikfolgenabschätzung ’ Theorie und Praxis, 13 (2), 10-16.

Drexler, K.E.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology: From Feynman to Funding’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24, 21-27.

Dupuy, J.-P.: 2004, ‘Complexity and Uncertainty: A Prudential Approach To Nanotechnology’, in: European Commission (Community Health and Consumer Protection): Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis on the Basis of a Workshop, Brussels, 1-2 March 2004, pp. 71-93 (www.europa.eu.int/comm/health/ ph_risk/documents/ev_20040301_en.pdf).

Dupuy, J.-P.: 2004, ‘L’irréalité de l’avenir et l’impuissance de l’éthique. Cas des nanotechnologies’, in: G. Nivat (éd.), Les limites de l´humain. 39èmes Rencontres Internationales de Genève, L´Age d´Homme, Genève, pp. 115-138.

Dupuy, J.-P.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnologies’, in: M. Canto-Sperber (ed.), Dictionnaire d'éthique et de philosophie morale, 4th edition, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Dupuy, J.-P.: 2004, ‘Pour une évaluation normative du programme nanotechnologique’, Annales des Mines, (February 2004), 27-32.

Einsiedel, E.F.; Goldenberg, L.: 2004, ‘Dwarfing the Social? Nanotechnology Lessons from the Biotechnology Front’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24, 28-33.

Etzkowitz, H., 2001, ‘Nano-Science and Society: Finding a Social Basis for Science Policy’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 121-128.

Fielder, F.A.; Reynolds, G.H.: 1994, ‘Legal Problems of Nanotechnology: An Overview’, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 3, 593-629.

Fleischer, Th.; Decker, M. & Fiedeler, U. (eds.): 2004, Große Aufmerksamkeit für kleine Welten ’ Nanotechnologie und ihre Folgen, special issue of Technikfolgenabschätzung ’ Theorie und Praxis, 13 (2), 5-85 [www.itas.fzk.de/tatup/042/inhalt.htm].

Fogelberg, H. & Glimell, H.: 2003, ‘Molecular Matters: In Search of the Real Stuff’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 5-32 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Fogelberg, H. & Glimell, H.: 2003, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Fogelberg, H.: 2003, ‘>Science< and >Technology< as Knowledge Cultures’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 87-97 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Fogelberg, H.: 2003, ‘The Grand Politics of Technoscience: Contextualizing Nanotechnology’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 33-54 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Fogelberg, H.: 2003, ‘The Material Culture of Nanotechnology’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 99-114 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Glimell, H.: 2001, ‘Challenging Limits ’ Excerpts from an Emerging Ethnography of Nano Physicists’, in: H. Glimell & O. Johlin (eds.), The Social Production of Technology: On the Everyday Life with Things, Göteburg, SE: BAS Publisher, chapter 7, pp. 111-131 (reprinted in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 115-139 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf]).

Glimell, H.: 2001, ‘Dynamics of the Emerging Field of Nanoscience’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 156-160.

Glimell, H.: 2003, ‘A Nano Narrative: The Mircopolitics of a New Generic Enabling Technology’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 55-77 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Glimell, H.: 2003, ‘Dynamics of the Emerging Field of Nanoscience’, in: H. Fogelberg & H. Glimell, Bringing Visibility to the Invisible: Towards A Social Understanding of Nanotechnology, Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 79-85 [www.sts.gu.se/publications/STS_report_6.pdf].

Glimell, H.: 2004, ‘Grand Visions and Lilliput Politics: Staging the Exploration of the ‘Endless Frontier’’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 231-246.

Gorman, M.E.; Groves, J.F. & Shrager, J.: 2004, ‘Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology as a Trading Zone: Results from a Pilot Project’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 63-73.

Grinbaum, A. & Dupuy, J.-P.: 2004, ‘Living with Uncertainty: Toward the Ongoing Normative Assessment of Nanotechnology’, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 8(3) (forthcoming).

Grinbaum, A.: 2004, ‘La condition de l’homme moderne et les nanotechnologies’, in: G. Nivat (ed.), Les limites de l´humain. 39èmes Rencontres Internationales de Genève, L´Age d´Homme, Genève, p. 141.

Grunwald, A.: 2004, ‘Ethische Aspekte der Nanotechnologie. Eine Felderkundung’, Technikfolgenabschätzung ’ Theorie und Praxis, 13 (2), 71-78.

Gupta, V.K. & Pangannaya, N.B.: 2000, ‘Carbon nanotubes: bibliometric analysis of patents’, World Patent Information, 22, 185-189.

Hansson, S.O.: 2004, ‘Great Uncertainty about Small Things’, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 8(3) (forthcoming).

Hayles, N.K. (ed.): 2004, Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Hayles, N.K.: 2004, ‘Connecting the Quantum Dots: Nanotechscience and Culture’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 11-26.

Hemerén, G.: 2004, ‘Nano Ethics Primer’, in: European Commission (Community Health and Consumer Protection): Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis on theBasis of a Workshop, Brussels, 1-2 March 2004 (www.europa.eu.int/comm/health/ ph_risk/documents/ev_20040301_en.pdf), pp. 95-102.

Hennig, J.: 2004, ‘Changes in the Design of Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Images from 1980 to 1990’, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 8(3) (forthcoming).

Hessenbruch, A.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology and the Negotiation of Novelty’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 135-144.

Hullmann, A. & Meyer, M.: 2003, ‘Publications and Patents in Nanotechnology. An overview of previous studies and the state of the art’, Scientometrics, 58 (3) 507-527.

Johansson, M.: 2003, ‘>Plenty of room at the bottom<: Towards an anthropology of nanoscience’, Anthropology Today, 19 (No. 6), 3-6.

Johnson, A.: 2004, ‘The End of Pure Science: Science Policy from Bayh-Dole to the NNI’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 217-230.

Keiper, A.: 2003, ‘The Nanotechnology Revolution’, The New Atlantis, 2, 17-34.

Khushf, G.: 2004, ‘A Hierarchical Architecture for Nano-scale Science and Technology: Taking Stock of the Claims About Science Made By Advocates of NBIC Convergence’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 21-33.

Khushf, G.: 2004, ‘Systems Theory and the Ethics of Human Enhancement: A Framework for NBIC Convergence’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1013, 124-149.

Kulinowski, K.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology: From >Wow< to >Yuck<?’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24, 13-20.

Kuusi, O.; Meyer, M.: 2002, ‘Technological generalizations and leitbilder ’ the anticipation of technological opportunities’, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 69, 625-639.

Landon, B.: 2004, ‘Less is More: Much Less is Much More: The Insistent Allure of Nanotechnology Narratives in Science Fiction’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 131-146.

Laszlo, P.: 2004, ‘Is There Life After Partington?’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 169-178.

Lenhard, J.: 2004, ‘Nanoscience and the Janus-Faced Character of Simulations’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 93-100.

Lewak, S.E.: 2004, ‘What’s the Buzz? Tell Me What’s A-Happening: Wonder, Nanotechnology, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 201-.

Lin-Easton, P.C.: 2001, ‘It’s Time for Environmentalists to Think Small ’ Real Small: A Call for the Involvement of Environmental Lawyers in Developing Precautionary Policies Molecular Nanotechnology’, Georgetown International Law Review, 14, 106-134.

López, J.: 2004, ‘Bridging the Gaps: Science Fiction in Nanotechnology’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 129-152.

Lösch, A.: 2004, ‘Nanomedicine and Space: Discursive Orders of Mediating Innovations’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 193-202.

Marshall, K.: 2004, ‘Atomizing the Risk Technology’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 147-160.

Mayer, S.: 2002, ‘From genetic modification to nanotechnology: the dangers of ‘sound science’’, in: T. Gilland (ed.), Science: Can We Trust the Experts?, London: Hodder and Stoughton, pp. 1-15.

Mehta, M.D.: 2002, ‘Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Assessing the Nature of Innovation in These Fields’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 22(4), 269-273.

Mehta, M.D.: 2004, ‘From Biotechnology to Nanotechnology: What Can We Learn from Earlier Technologies?, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24, 34-39.

Meyer, M. & Kuusi, O.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology: Generalizations in an Interdisciplinary Field of Science and Technology’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 153-168.

Meyer, M.: 2000a, ‘Does science push technology? Patents citing scientific literature’, Research Policy, 29, 409-434.

Meyer, M.: 2000b, ‘Patent citations in a novel field of technology: What can they tell about interactions of emerging communities of science and technology?’, Scientometrics, 48, 151-178.

Meyer, M.: 2001a, ‘Patent citations in a novel field of technology: An exploration of nano-science and nano-technology’, Scientometrics, 51, 163-183.

Meyer, M.: 2001b, ‘Socio-economic Research on Nanoscale Science and Technology: A European Overview and Illustration’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 217-241.

Meyer, M.; Persson, O.: 1998, ‘Nanotechnology ’ interdisciplinarity, patterns of collaboration and differences in application’, Scientometrics, 47, 195’205.

Milburn, C.: 2002, ‘Nanotechnology in the age of post-human engineering: science fiction as science’, Configurations, 10, 261-295 [reprinted in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2004, pp. 109-130].

Milburn, C.: 2004, ‘Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body’, New Literary History, 35 (in print).

Mnyusiwalla, A.; Abdallah, S.D.; Singer, P.A.: 2003, ‘>Mind the gap<: science and ethics in nanotechnology’, Nanotechnology, 14, R9-R13.

Mody, C.C.M.: 2004, ‘How Probe Microscopists Became Nanotechnologists’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 119-133.

Mody, C.C.M.: 2004, ‘Instruments in Training: The Growth of American Probe Microscopy in the 1980s’, in: D. Kaiser (ed.), Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Producing Physical Scientists, 1800-2000, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (forthcoming).

Mody, C.C.M.: 2004, ‘Small, but Determined: Technological Determinism in Nanoscience’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 10(2), 99-128.

Mody, C.C.M.: 2004, Crafting the Tools of Knowledge: The Invention, Spread, and Commercialization of Probe Microscopy, 1960-2000, Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University.

Moor, J.H. & Weckert, J.: 2004, ‘Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale From an Ethical Point of View’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 301-310.

Munn Sanchez, E.: 2004, ‘The Expert’s Role in Nanoscience and Technology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 257-266.

Nordmann, A.: 2003, ‘>Shaping the World Atom by Atom<: Eine nanowissenschaftliche WeltBildanalyse’, in: A. Grunwald (ed.), Technikgestaltung zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit, Berlin: Springer, pp. 191-199.

Nordmann, A.: 2004, ‘Molecular Disjunctions: Staking Claims at the Nanoscale’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 51-62.

Nordmann, A.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology: Convergence and Integration’, Presentation at EuroNanoForum, Trieste, December 10, 2003 (Proceedings in preparation).

Nordmann, A.: 2004, ‘Nanotechnology’s WorldView: New Space for Old Cosmologies’, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 23 (forthcoming).

Nordmann, A.: 2004, ‘Social Imagination for Nanotechnology’, in: European Commission (Community Health and Consumer Protection): Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis on the Basis of a Workshop, Brussels, 1-2 March 2004, pp. 111-113 [www.europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/documents/ev_20040301_en.pdf].

Nordmann, A.: 2004, ‘Was ist TechnoWissenschaft? ’ Zum Wandel der Wissenschaftskultur am Beispiel von Nanoforschung und Bionik’, in: T. Rossmann & C. Tropea (eds.), Bionik ’ Neue Forschungsergebnisse aus Natur-, Ingenieur- und Geisteswissenschaften, Berlin: Springer, 2004 (forthcoming)

Pitt, J.C.: 2004, ‘The Epistemology of the Very Small’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 157-163.

Pressman, J.: 2004, ‘Nano Narrative: A Parable from Electronic Literature’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 191-200.

Roberts, J.A.: 2004, ‘Deciding the Future of Nanotechnologies: Legal Perspectives on Issues of Democracy and Technology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 247-255.

Robinson, C.: 2004, ‘Images in NanoScience/Technology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 165-169.

Robison, W.L.: 2004, ‘Nano-Ethics’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 285-300.

Sarewitz, D.; Woodhouse, E.: 2003, ‘Small is Powerful’, in: A. Lightman, D. Sarewitz & Chr. Desser, (eds.), Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 63-83.

Schiemann, G.: 2004, ‘Dissolution of the Nature-Technology Dichotomy? Perspectives on Nanotechnology from an Everyday Understanding of Nature’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 209-213.

Schmidt, J.C.: 2004, ‘Unbounded Technologies: Working Through Technological Reductionism of Nanotechnology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 35-50.

Schuler, E.: 2004, ‘Perception of Risks and Nanotechnology’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 279-284.

Schummer, J.: 2001, ‘Ethics of Chemical Synthesis’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 7, 103-124 [online: www.hyle.org/journal/issues/7/schummer.htm].

Schummer, J.: 2003, ‘Aesthetics of Chemical Products: Materials, Molecules, and Molecular Models’, Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 9, 73-104
[online: www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-1/schummer.htm].

Schummer, J.: 2003, ‘The Notion of Nature in Chemistry’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 (2003), 705-736.

Schummer, J.: 2004, ‘>Societal and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology<: Meanings, Interest Groups, and Social Dynamics’, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 8(3) (forthcoming).

Schummer, J.: 2004, ‘Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale Research’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 9-20.

Schummer, J.: 2004, ‘Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Patterns of Research Collaboration in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology’, Scientometrics, 59, 425-465.

Schummer, J.: 2004, ‘Naturverhältnisse in der modernen Wirkstoff-Forschung’, in: K. Kornwachs (ed.), Technik ’ System ’ Verantwortung, Münster: LIT, pp. 629-638.

Schummer, J.: 2004, ‘Why do Chemists Perform Experiments?’, in: D. Sobczynska, P. Zeidler, E. Zielonacka-Lis (eds.), Chemistry in the Philosophical Melting Pot, Peter Lang (Frankfurt/M.), 2004, pp. 395-410.

Schummer, J.: 2005, ‘Reading Nano: The Public Interest in Nanotechnology as Reflected in Book Purchase Patterns", Public Understanding of Science, 14 (2) (forthcoming).

Schummer, J.; Baird, D. (eds.): 2004-5, Nanotech Challenges, joint special issue of Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry & Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology (forthcoming).

Schwarz, A.E.: 2004, ‘Shrinking the ‘Ecological Footprint’ with NanoTechnoScience?’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 203-208.

Suchman, M.: 2001, ‘Envisioning Life on the Nano-Frontier’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 211-216.

Suchman, M.: 2002, ‘Social Science and Nanotechnologies’, M. Roco & R. Tomellini (eds.), Nanotechnology ’ Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications, Luxembourg: European Communities, pp. 95-99.

Sweeney, A.E.; Seal, S. & Vaidyanathan, P.: 2003, ‘The promises and perils of nanoscience and nanotechnology: Exploring emerging social and ethical issues’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 23 (4), 236-245.

ten Wolde, A. (ed.): 1998, Nanotechnology: Towards a Molecular Construction Kit, The Hague: The Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT).

Tenner, E.: 2001, ‘Nanotechnology and Unintended Consequences’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 241-246.

Toumey, C.: 2004, ‘Anticipating Public Reactions to Nanotechnology’, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 8(3) (forthcoming).

Vermaas, P.E.: 2004, ‘Nanoscale Technology: A Two-Sided Challenge for Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics’, in: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 77-91.

Wald, C.A.: 2004, ‘Working Boundaries on the NANO Exhibition’, in: N.K. Hayles (ed.), Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 83-108.

Weckert, J.: 2001, ‘The Control of Scientific Research: The Case of Nanotechnology’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, 3, 29-44.

Weil, V.: 2001, ‘Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology’, in: M.C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.), Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 193-198.

Wolfson, J.R.: 2003, ‘Social and Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology: Lessons from Biotechnology and Other High Technologies’, Biotechnology Law Report, 22 (4), 376-96.

Reports

Arnall A.H.: 2003, Future Technologies, Today’s Choices: Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ’ A Technical, Political and Institutional Map of Emerging Technologies, Greenpeace Environmental Trust: London [www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5886.pdf].

ETC: 2003a, The Big Down: Atom Tech ’ Technologies Converging at the Atomic Scale. Winnipeg, Canada: Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration [www.etcgroup.org/documents/TheBigDown.pdf].

ETC: 2003b, ‘No Small Matter II: The Case for a Global Moratorium ’ Size Matters!’ Occasional Paper Series 7(1) [www.etcgroup.org/documents/Occ.Paper_Nanosafety.pdf].

European Comission: European Workshop on Social and Economic Research on Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences, Brussels, 14-15 April 2004 [www.stage-research.net/STAGE/PAGES/Nano.html].

European Commission (Community Health and Consumer Protection): 2004, Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis on theBasis of a Workshop, Brussels, 1-2 March 2004
[www.europa.eu.int/comm/health/ ph_risk/documents/ev_20040301_en.pdf].

European Commission: 2004, Converging Technologies: Shaping the Future of European Societies (Report of the High Level Expert Group "Foresighting the New Technology Wave"), Brussels: European Commission Research [http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2004/ntw/index_en.html].

Paschen, H.; Coenen, C.; Fleischer, T.; Grünwald, R.; Oertel, D. & Revermann, C.: 2004, Nanotechnologie: Forschung, Entwicklung, Anwendung, Berlin: Springer (Nanotechnologie, TAB-Arbeitsbericht 92, Berlin: Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag).

Roco, M.C. & Bainbridge, W.S. (eds.): 2001, Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology, (Proceedings of a workshop organized by the National Science Foundation, September 28-29, 2000), Kluwer: Dordrecht [available online at http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/societalimpact/nanosi.pdf]

Roco, M.C.; Bainbridge, W.S. (eds.): 2002, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and the Cognitive Science, Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.

Roco, M.C. & Tomellini, R. (eds.): 2002, Nanotechnology: Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications, Workshop, Lecce (Italy), 31 January - 1 February 2002, Luxemburg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, [200 pp.]

Swiss Re: 2004, Nanotechnology: Small Matter, Many Unknowns, Zurich: Swiss Re [www.swissre.com].

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