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Author Laurent, Brice, author

Title Democratic experiments : problematizing nanotechnology and democracy in Europe and the United States / Brice Laurent
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]

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Description 1 electronic resource (xviii, 261 pages)
Series Inside technology
Inside technology.
Contents Colloidal quantum dots: synthesis, photophysical properties, and biofunctionalization strategies -- Colloidal chemical synthesis of organic-dispersible uniform magnetic nanoparticles -- Peptide-functionalized quantum dots for live diagnostic imaging and therapeutic applications -- Resonance energy transfer-based sensing using quantum dot bioconjugates -- Use of luminescent quantum dots to image and initiate biological functions -- Single particle investigation of biological processes using QD-bioconjugates -- Assessment of the issues related to the toxicity of quantum dots -- Chemical and biological sensing based on gold nanoparticles -- Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods: photophysical properties applied toward biological imaging and therapy -- Magnetic nanoparticles in biomedical applications -- Magnetic nanoparticles -- assisted cellular MR imaging and their biomedical applications
Summary This book looks at the democratic constructions surrounding public debates about issues related to scientific and technological development, specifically in this case nanotechnology. Brice Laurent argues that nanotechnology is a lens through which one can build a theoretical and practical approach to the study of contemporary democracies, exploring the joint production of nanotechnology itself and democratic order and identifying questions related to the exercise of citizenship, forms of national sovereignty, and channels of political legitimacy. This book helps increase visibility of and accessibility to STS methodologies for scholars and practitioners outside the field of science, technology, and society
Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index
Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Democracy -- European Union countries
Democracy -- United States
Nanotechnology -- Government policy -- European Union countries
Nanotechnology -- Government policy -- United States
Nanotechnology -- Political aspects -- European Union countries
Nanotechnology -- Political aspects -- United States
Science and state -- European Union countries
Science and state -- United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Nanotechnology & MEMS.
Democracy
Science and state
European Union countries
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019667950
ISBN 9780262344487
0262344483
0262344491
9780262344494