Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment: Implementation and Its Chances and LimitsTechnology Assessment processes can be taken as a paradigm for interdisciplinary research. It is expected that interdisciplinary Technology Assessment is able to find solutions for actual sociopolitical problems that go beyond those expectable from one individual scientific discipline alone. The common notion that for tasks like this different disciplinary perspectives should be brought together confronts the fact that there is no common notion on how interdisciplinary research should be done. In the present volume of the series "Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung" European experts of Technology Assessment present their perspectives on interdisciplinary research. They focus on methodology, policy consulting, and participation of stakeholders, laypersons and citizens or present concrete case studies concerning climate change and health care. Each contribution is commented by an other scientist. The result is a discussion-like examination of the connection between interdisciplinarity and the main subjects of Technology Assessment. This makes the book worth reading not only for experts in interdisciplinary research and policy consulting, but also for those who are interested in the ongoing discussion about methodology in European Technology Assessment. |
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Contents
Participatory Technology Assessment Some Critical Questions | 3 |
Rational Technology Assessment as Interdisciplinary Research | 4 |
The Politics of Technology Assessment | 7 |
36 | 13 |
PostNormal Science Science and Governance under Conditions | 15 |
On the Prospects of Normality in Scientific Research | 25 |
To assess rationality before anything else | 61 |
Parliament Paradox and Policy | 73 |
Toward lay participation and cooperative learning in TA technology | 95 |
The Role of Scientific Input and Public Participation for Technology | 123 |
73 | 140 |
The Ethics of Technology Assessment in Health Care | 147 |
a promising policy perspective | 165 |
The Inclusion of Stakeholder Perspectives in Integrated Assessment | 199 |
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| Title | Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment: Implementation and Its Chances and Limits Volume 11 of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment Volume 11 of Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung Schriftenreihe der Europischen Akademie Zur Erforschung Von Folgen Wissenschaftlich-Technischer Entwicklungen Series Volume 11 of Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung |
| Editor | M. Decker |
| Contributor | F. Wütscher |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2002 |
| ISBN | 3540427929, 9783540427926 |
| Length | 215 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Research & Development Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / General Science / General |
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