1st Edition
Knowing New Biotechnologies Social Aspects of Technological Convergence
Part I: Introduction 1. An Introduction to Social Convergences, Matthias Wienroth and Eugénia Rodrigues 2. Distinguishing the Umbrella Promise of Converging Technology from the Dynamics of Technology Convergence, Douglas K. R. Robinson Part II: Dynamics and Logics 3. Why so Many Promises? The Economy of Scientific Promises and its Ambivalences, Marc Audetat 4. Logics of Convergence in NBIC and Personal Genomics, Christopher Groves 5. The Convergence of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Companies and Biobanking Activities. The Case of 23andme, Heidi Carmen Howard, Sigrid Sterckx, Julian Cockbain, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Pascal Borry Part III: Governance 6. The Messiness of Convergence: Remarks on the roles of two visions of the future, Christopher Coenen 7. Analysing Convergence in the Governance of the Genome. The Case of the United Kingdom one Decade into the Twenty-First Century, Isabel Fletcher, Steve Yearley, Catherine Lyall 8. Diagonal Convergences: Genetic testing, governance, and globalisation, Christine Hauskeller Part IV: Amateurs and Citizens 9. Do-It-Yourself Biology, Garage Biology, and Kitchen Science. A Feminist Analysis of Bio-Making Narratives, Clare Jen 10. Amateurization and Re-Materialization in Biology. Opening up Scientific Equipment, Morgan Meyer 11. Converging Technologies and Critical Social Movements. An Exploration, Franz Seifert 12. Rhetorics and Practices Of Democratization In Synthetic Biology, Emma Frow Commentary 13. Considering Convergences In Technology And Society, Steve Yearley
Biography
Matthias Wienroth is Research Fellow at the Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science and Associate Researcher at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences research centre, Newcastle University. He studies science-society relationships and the opportunities of cross-disciplinary knowledge production for socially responsible technology development.
Eugénia Rodrigues is Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Trained in sociology at the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and York (UK), her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental sociology and STS with a particular interest in contemporary expert-lay relations and their implications for knowledge democratisation.
