Discovering the nanoscale

Interdisciplinary issues in nanoscale research - Joachim Schummer ; A Hierarchical architecture for nano-scale science and technology: taking stock of the claims about science made by advocates of NBIC convergence - George Khushf ; Unbounded technologies: working through technological reductionism of nanotechnology - Jan C. Schmidt ; Molecular disjunctions: staking claims at the nanoscale - Alfred Nordmann ;Societal dimensions of nanotechnology as a trading zone: results from a pilot project - Michael E. Gorman, James F. Groves, Jeff Shrager ; Nanoscale technology: a two-sided challenge for interpretations of quantum mechanics - Pieter E. Vermass ; Nanoscience and Janus-faced character of simulations - Johannes Lenhard ; Von Neumann, self-reproduction and the constitution of nanophenomena - Otavia Bueno ; How probe microscopists became nanotechnologists - Cyrus C.M. Mody ; Nanotechnology and the negotiation of novelty - Arne Hessenbruch ; Probing the history of scanning tunneling microscopy - Davis Baird, Ashley Shew ; The epistemology of the very small - Joseph C. Pitt ; Images in nanoscience/technology - Chris Robinson ; The rhetoric of nanotechnology - David M. Berube ; Nanomedicine and space: discursive orders of mediating innovations - Andreas Losch ; Shrinking the ecological footprint with nanotechnoscience? - Astrid E. Schwarz ; Dissolution of the nature-technology dichotomy?: perspectives on nanotechnology from an everyday understanding of science - Gregor Schiemann ; The end of pure science: science policy from Bayh-Dole to the NNI - Ann Johnson ; Grand visions and Lilliput politics: staging the exploration of the `endless frontier` - Hans Glimell ; Deciding the future of nanotechnologies: legal perspectives on issues of democracy and technology - Jody A. Roberts ; The expert`s role in nanoscience and technology - Edward Munn Sanchez ; Military, arms control, and security aspects of nanotechnology - Jurgen Altmann, Mark A. Gubrud ; Perceptions of risks and nanotechnology - Emmanuelle Schuler ; Nano-ethics - Wade L. Robison ; Bibliography of Studies on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - Joachim Schummer. Collection of studies and essays that considers nanoscience and nanotechnologies from the critical perspective of Science and Technology Studies, stemming from sustained investigations of nanotechnologies and of the contexts that are shaping their development.