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Course Reader
 Nanotech+Society Course Reader
STS 201: Section 88405, Spring 2005
Compiled by Charles Tahan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
This incomplete compilation of readings was put togethor prior to the first class as a resource for the students. For the complete readings go to the classes page which lists the actual readings by day, plus or minus what is included here.
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H. Collins and T. Pinch, Introduction: the technological Golem, The Golem at Large, Cambridge 1998 |
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R. P. Feynman, There's plenty of room at the bottom: An invitation to enter a new field of physics
The transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). |
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M. Ratner and D. Ratner, Ch. 3: The Fundamental Science Behind Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea, Prentice Hall 2003 |
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J. Uldrich and D. Newberry, Ch. 3: Follow the Money, Follow the Leaders, The Next Big Thing is Really Small, Crown Business 2003 |
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S. E. Cozzens and E. J. Woodhouse, Science, Government, and the Politics of Knowledge |
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G. Cross and R. Szostak, Ch. 4: Origins of Industrialization, Technology and American Society: A History, Prentice Hall 1995 |
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M. Crichton, Introduction: Arificial Evolution in the 21st Century, Prey |
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Michael Flynn, Soul of the City, Analog, L100-105 Feb. 1989 |
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Leo Marx, Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? |
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Langdon Winner, Technology as Forms of Life, The Whale and the Reactor, U. Chicago Press 1986 |
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R. Kline and T. Pinch, Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States, Technology and Culture 37, 763-795. |
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Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, The Whale and the Reactor, U. Chicago Press 1986 |
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M. Crow and D. Sariewitz, Nanotechnology and Societal Transformation, in Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Washington, NSF 2001) |
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Langdon Winner, Testimony to Congress, Wed. April 9, 2003 |
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M. C. Roco, Broader Societal Implications of Nanotechnology, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 5, 181-189 (2003) |
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M. C. Roco, The US National Nanotechnology Initiative After 3 Years, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 6, 1-10 (2003) |
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David Noble, Command Performance: A Perspective on Military Enterprise and Technological Change, Military Enterprise and Technological Change, Cambridge MIT Press 1987 |
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D. Talbot, Super Soldiers, MIT Tech Review, Oct 2002, 105(8): 44-50 |
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Charles Perrow, Introduction and Ch. 1, Normal Accidents, Princeton 1984 |
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Vicki Colvin, The potential environmental impact of engineered nanomaterials, Nature Biotechnology 21, Oct. 2003, p1166 |
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S. Krimsky and A. Plough, The Release of Genetically Modified Organisms into the Environment: The Case of Ice Minus |
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B. Wynne, Misunderstood Misunderstandings: Social Identities and Public Uptake of Science, Misunderstood Misunderstandings, Cambridge 1995 |
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H. Collins and T. Pinch, The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers , The Golem at Large, Cambridge 1998 |
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Langdon Winner, On Not Hitting the Tar-Baby , The Whale and the Reactor, U. Chicago Press 1986 |
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K. Eric Drexler, Ch. 2: The Principles of Change, Engines of Creation, Doubleday 1987 |
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Douglas Mulhall, Ch. 1: Singularity, Our Molecular Future, Prometheus 2002 |
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Peter Atkins, The Future of Matter, essay in The Next Fifty Years |
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Rodney Brooks , The Merger of Flesh and Machines, essay in The Next Fifty Years |
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