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| Gorman, Michael
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University of Virginia
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| Groves, J.
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University of Virginia
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| R.K. Catalano, Virginia University
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| Societal dimensions of nantechnology
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Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE
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23.4 (2004):55-62.
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| Gormal and Groves note with approval that social and ethical implications of nanotechnology have been forefronted in recent policy. They propose a method for doing research that they carried out as a case study (using a graduate student) in 2003. Rather than requiring society to respond to scientific developments or to direct scientific developments, scientists should look for a coherence between technological opportunities and world problems. R. K. Catalano, graduate student at the University of Virginia, carried out research using a model that included World Ills, Engineered Devices, Material Properties and Specific Material Systems. To enable a discussion between fields, a set of necessary metaphors, a patois, grew up between the participants as research strategy was developed. Catalono's work was on a specific kind of quantum dot which can function, in future, for wound healing and the reduction of artheriosclerosis. Iterative and collaborative, the project constitutes proof-of-concept that SEIN concerns can guide and direct good research. |
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