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Volume 23 Number 4
Winter 2004
Special Issue on Nanotechnology

Guest Editor, E.J. Woodhouse

DEPARTMENTS


3     Call for Papers - ISTAS`05
    Book Reviews
6    Guest Editor's Introduction: Nanotechnology Controversies
68  2004 Year-End Index

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

9     Nanotechnology: From Feynmann to the Grand Challenge of Molecular Manufacturing*
       Christine L. Peterson

16  The Politics of Small Things: Nanotechnology, Risk, and Uncertainty*
       James Wilsdon

22  Denialism: Drexler vs. Roco*
       David Berube and J.D. Shipman

27  Does Existing Law Fail to Address Nanotechnoscience?*
       Michael Bennett

33  Anticipating Military Nanotechnology*
       Juergen Altmann and Mark Gubrud

41  Studying Molecular Manufacturing*
       Chris Phoenix

48  Nanotechnology's Worldview: New Space for Old Cosmologies*
       Alfred Nordmann

55  Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology*
        M.E. Gorman, J.F. Groves, and R.K. Catalano



 
*Refereed Articles.