Disziplinäre Identitätsbildung neu gedacht : Toxikologie als Nanowissenschaft?

Focusing on toxicology as a leading discipline that analyzes health implications of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, we study the formation of disciplinary identities. By expanding its disciplinary boundaries, participating within the new research fields, continuing with its previous research and only vaguely shaping its topics, toxicology is searching its way into the new fields without giving up its present self-conception. However, the toxicological research community is also discussing a new positioning that could move toxicology from an auxiliary to a constitutive position to take over a basic role in the field of nanosciences, regarding its cognitive, institutional, and social framing. (Used with editor's permission, copyright Akademishche Verlagsgesellischaft, 2006)