Public engagement and emerging technologies

Public engagement and emerging technologies [electronic resource] / edited by Kieran O'Doherty and Edna Einsiedel. - Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013. - 342 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The purpose and function of public participation -- pt. 2. External conditions for legitimate public engagement : ethics, society, and democracy -- pt. 3. Internal conditions for legitimate public engagement : lessons for the practitioner -- pt. 4. Institutional contexts of public participation -- pt. 5. Modes of and experiments in participation -- pt. 6. Understanding stakeholders and publics.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.




Biotechnology--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Biotechnology--Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Biotechnology--Technological innovations--Government policy.
Biotechnology--Technological innovations--Political aspects.


Electronic books.

TP248.23 / .P83 2013eb