Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Kieran O’Doherty and Edna Einsiedel
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 é Andrea Riccardo Migone and Michael Howlett
Part 5: Modes of and Experiments in Participation
12 Swimming with Salmon: The Use of Journalism to Public Engagement Initiatives on Emerging Biotechnologies é 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 and e-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
Contributors
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