<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bauer, Martin</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Resistance to new technology : nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June, 1997</style></date></pub-dates></dates><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2nd ed.</style></edition><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cambridge University Press</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">422 p.</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9780521599481</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become skeptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists. Though not specifically dealing with nanotechnology, may be useful in putting resistance to the acceptance of nanotechnology into perspective.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Report from the conference</style></work-type></record></records></xml>