Research Catalog

Title

Public engagement and emerging technologies / edited by Kieran O'Doherty and Edna Einsiedel.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Einsiedel, Edna F.
• Einsiedel, Edna F.,
• O'Doherty, Kieran, 1974-

Description

342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"New technologies and the sciences that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated into society. Over the last few decades, recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. However, diverse factors such as existing regulatory frameworks specific to jurisdictions, local cultural contexts, and the nature of particular technologies have ensured that there is no single approach." --Back cover.

Subject

• Biotechnologie > Aspect moral
• Biotechnologie > Aspect politique
• Biotechnologie > Aspect social
• Biotechnologie > Politique gouvernementale
• Biotechnology > Government policy
• Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Biotechnology > Political aspects
• Biotechnology > Social aspects
• Biotechnology > ethics
• Politics
• Public Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1: The Purpose and Function of Public Participation. 1. Giving Power to Public Voice: A Critical Review of Alternative Means of Infusing Citizen Deliberation with Legal Authority or Influence / John Gastil -- 2. Parliamentary Technology Assessment in Europe and the Role of Public Participation / Leonhard Hennen -- 3. Democracy, Governance, and Public Engagement: A Critical Assessment / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Part 2: External Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Ethics, Society, and Democracy. 4. Trust, Accountability, and Participation: Conditions for and Constraints on "New" Democratic Models / Susan Dodds -- 5. Public Voices or Private Choices? The Role of Public Consultation in the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies / Colin Gavaghan -- 6. Challenges to Deliberations on Genomics / Michiel Korthals --^
• Part 3: Internal Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Lessons for the Practitioner. 7. Deliberative Fears: Citizen Deliberation about Science in a National Consensus Conference / Michael D. Cobb -- 8. Theorizing Deliberative Discourse Kieran O'Doherty -- Part 4: Institutional Contexts of Public Participation. 9. Public Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in. Public and Private Policy / David Castle -- 10. From Public Engagement to Public Policy: Competing. Stakeholders and the Path to Law Reform / David Weisbrot -- 11 Participation in the Canadian Biotechnology Regulatory Regime / Andrea Riccardo Migone and MichaelHowlett -- Part 5: Modes of and Experiments in Participation. 12. Swimming with Salmon: The Use of Journalism to Public Engagement Initiatives on Emerging Biotechnologies / David M. Secko -- 13. Science Media and Public Participation: The Potential of Drama-Documentaries / Grace Reid --^
• 14. N-Reasons: Computer-Mediated Ethical Decision Support for Public Participation / Peter Danielson -- 15. Contentious New Technology Introductions ande-Participation / Keith Culver -- Part 6: Understanding Stakeholders and Publics. 16. Rethinking "Publics" and "Participation" in New Governance Contexts: Stakeholder Publics and Extended Forms of Participation / Edna Einsiedel -- 17. Public Engagement with Human Genetics: A Social Movement Approach / Alexandra Plows -- 18. The Limits of Liberal Values in the Moral Assessment of Genomic and Technological Innovation / Chloë G.K. Atkins.

ISBN

• 9780774824606
• 0774824603

LCCN

^^2012538888

OCLC

808413479

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library