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From nuclear power to gene therapy to the automobile, history shows that it is useful to encourage and facilitate public discussion about new technologies and their potential dangers. Part of the series __Perspectives in Nanotechnology__, **Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication** assesses results from focus groups, interviews, and other resources to provide a more nuanced understanding of how non-experts perceive nanotechnology and what they expect from it. **__Includes a series of special essays by social scientists and humanities scholars who have studied nanotechnology and society from different perspectives__**Assessing how "ordinary" people form opinions about new technologies and their adoption, this book addresses the role of media messages and pre-existing values in this process, as well as how risks can become either amplified or weakened along the way as a result of social mechanisms. Using solid theory and research to back presented concepts on risk perception and communication, the author discusses the potential for using informed consent, labels, and other types of consumer warnings that have proved to be effective in areas other than na

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Author

editor, Susanna Hornig Priest

Publisher

CRC Press LLC

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439826843

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Stem