Nanoethics and the Breaching of Boundaries: A Heuristic for Going from Encouragement to a Fuller Integration of Ethical, Legal and Social Issues and Science

Tuma, Julio R.

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“…Their paper, ''Adding to the Mix: Integrating ELSI into a National Nanoscale Science and Technology Center,'' explains Bjornstad and Wolfe's approach to selecting ELSI questions, research methodologies, and evaluative measuresincluding the possibility that laboratory participants may modify research and development agendas on the basis of supplied ELSI research products. Commentator Julio Tuma (2011), informed by his own laboratory engagement experience, further develops the notion of ''successful'' integration and offers an alternative framework for ELSI integration.…”

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Fisher

2011

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Science policy mandates across the industrialized world insinuate more active roles for publics, their earlier participation in policy decisions, and expanded notions of science and technology governance. In response to these policies, engaged scholars in science studies have sought to design and conduct exercises aimed at better attuning science to its public contexts. As demand increases for innovative and potentially democratic forms of public engagement with science and technology, so also do the prospects for insights from science studies to contribute to policy agendas and institutional capabilities. This collection brings together an international set of scholars in science, technology and society who inquire into the meaning, efficacy and responsibility of engaged science studies scholarship as a public matter.Keywords Public engagement Á Responsible innovation Á Integration Á Engaged scholarship Á Science and technology studies Á Science and technology policy A Doubly Transformative AgendaAs governments around the world invest in new and emerging forms of science and technology, often adorning their agendas with the language and imagery of profound social transformation, many are also recasting the means by which they publicly reckon with the social and ethical aspects of these policy decisions. Nestled alongside high-level program goals and routine funding procedures for nanotechnology, biotechnology and other arenas of strategic interest, sit provisions for enhancing the participation of publics and for broadening the practices of experts in both knowledge making and decision making. Unlike established policy models,

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2011

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Nanoethics in a Nanolab: Ethics via Participation

Tuma

2013

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A participant-observer who is both informed and interested in ethical issues, and is embedded within a nanotechnology research and development facility may be able to influence the ethical awareness of researchers in nanotechnology, and tease out the societal implications of the work being conducted. Two inter-disciplinary methods were employed: (1) regular involvement in the technical and scientific research at the facility by the participant-observer, and (2) repeated interactions and discussions between the participant-observer and the scientists. As a result of this qualitative approach, an ethics questionnaire was developed and tested. This questionnaire has been incorporated into the admissions procedures for researchers as they commence use of the nanotech facility. The questionnaire highlights the importance of ethical issues in nanotechnology research and draws researchers into an engagement with possible ethical consequences and with future societal implications of their work.

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Nanoethics and the Breaching of Boundaries: A Heuristic for Going from Encouragement to a Fuller Integration of Ethical, Legal and Social Issues and Science

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