Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment - Implementation and its Chances and Limits

List of contents

I Methodology of Technology Assessment.- 1 Participatory Technology Assessment. Some Critical Questions.- 3 Business as Usual: On the Prospects of Normality in Scientific Research.- 4 Rational Technology Assessment as Interdisciplinary Research.- 5 To assess rationality before anything else. A remark on the legitimacy of Rational Technology Assessment.- II Technology Assessment as Policy Consulting.- 6 Parliament, Paradox and Policy.- 7 The Politics of Technology Assessment.- 9 The Role of Scientific Input and Public Participation for Technology Assessment.- IV Case Studies.- 10 The Ethics of Technology Assessment in Health Care.- 11 Transition Management: a promising policy perspective.- 12 The Inclusion of Stakeholder Perspectives in Integrated Assessment of Climate Change.

Product details

• Assisted by: M. Decker (Editor), F. Wütscher (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9783642076718
• ISBN: 978-3-642-07671-8
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 9 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: XX, 217 p. 11 illus.
• Series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Philosophie, C, Ethics, Economic Policy, Philosophy, engineering, Ethics & moral philosophy, Management science, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy, general, R & D/Technology Policy, Economic Development, Innovation and Growth