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- Book Title
- Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies
- ISBN
- 9780774824606
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Publication Name
- Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies
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- University of British Columbia Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Biotechnology, Public Policy / General, Social Aspects, General
- Publication Year
- 2012
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 1.2 in
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- 22.6 Oz
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- Number of Pages
- 356 Pages
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University of British Columbia Press
ISBN-10
0774824603
ISBN-13
9780774824606
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
356 Pages
Publication Name
Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Biotechnology, Public Policy / General, Social Aspects, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.483
Table Of Content
Introduction Kieran O'Doherty and Edna Einsiedel Part 1: The Purpose and Function of Public Participation 1 Giving Power to Public Voice: A Critical Review of Alternative Means of Infusing Citizen Deliberation with Legal Authority or Influence / John Gastil 2 Parliamentary Technology Assessment in Europe and the Role of Public Participation / Leonhard Hennen 3 Democracy, Governance, and Public Engagement: A Critical Assessment / Peter W.B. Phillips Part 2: External Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Ethics, Society, and Democracy 4 Trust, Accountability, and Participation: Conditions for and Constraints on "New" Democratic Models / Susan Dodds 5 Public Voices or Private Choices? The Role of Public Consultation in the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies / Colin Gavaghan 6 Challenges to Deliberations on Genomics / Michiel Korthals Part 3: Internal Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Lessons for the Practitioner 7 Deliberative Fears: Citizen Deliberation about Science in a National Consensus Conference / Michael D. Cobb 8 Theorizing Deliberative Discourse / Kieran O'Doherty Part 4: Institutional Contexts of Public Participation 9 Public Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in Public and Private Policy / David Castle 10 From Public Engagement to Public Policy: Competing Stakeholders and the Path to Law Reform / David Weisbrot 11 Participation in the Canadian Biotechnology Regulatory Regime é Andrea Riccardo Migone and Michael Howlett Part 5: Modes of and Experiments in Participation 12 Swimming with Salmon: The Use of Journalism to Public Engagement Initiatives on Emerging Biotechnologies é David M. Secko 13 Science Media and Public Participation: The Potential of Drama-Documentaries / Grace Reid 14 N-Reasons: Computer-Mediated Ethical Decision Support for Public Participation / Peter Danielson 15 Contentious New Technology Introductions and e-Participation / Keith Culver Part 6: Understanding Stakeholders and Publics 16 Rethinking "Publics" and "Participation" in New Governance Contexts: Stakeholder Publics and Extended Forms of Participation / Edna Einsiedel 17 Public Engagement with Human Genetics: A Social Movement Approach / Alexandra Plows 18 The Limits of Liberal Values in the Moral Assessment of Genomic and Technological Innovation / Chloë G.K. Atkins Contributors Index
Synopsis
New technologies and the science that created them have transformedour lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can bebetter integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has ledto different ways of engaging the public in the assessment andregulation of emerging technologies. However, there has been no singleapproach that characterizes the relationship between publics and newtechnologies. This book puts the subject of publics and their engagement inemerging technologies on a robust theoretical footing. With a strong,though not exclusive, focus on genomic technologies, leading theoristsand practitioners in the field provide precise and clear insights intothe key issues in public participation studies, including ethics,process, and principles of knowledge distribution in democraticsocieties. The discussion is particularly pertinent and central tocurrent concerns in health, technology, and public participation at atime when the reform of public and private sector health and socialcare services are being debated globally., This book puts the subject of publics and their engagement with emerging technologies on robust footing. With a strong, though not exclusive, focus on genomic technologies, leading theorists and practitioners in the field provide overviews of methods and approaches and theoretical accounts of the processes underlying public engagement., New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. However, there has been no single approach that characterizes the relationship between publics and new technologies. This book puts the subject of publics and their engagement in emerging technologies on a robust theoretical footing. With a strong, though not exclusive, focus on genomic technologies, leading theorists and practitioners in the field provide precise and clear insights into the key issues in public participation studies, including ethics, process, and principles of knowledge distribution in democratic societies. The discussion is particularly pertinent and central to current concerns in health, technology, and public participation at a time when the reform of public and private sector health and social care services are being debated globally., This book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies., New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. This book puts the subject of publics and their engagement in emerging technologies on a robust theoretical footing. With a strong, though not exclusive, focus on genomic technologies, leading theorists and practitioners in the field provide precise and clear insights into the key issues in public participation studies, including ethics, process, and principles of knowledge distribution in democratic societies.
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