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Tadellos. - Table o f contents -- Heuristic approach in the case of (nano) -- technosciences Introductive remarks9 -- Part A Technosciences: Approaches and models -- 1 Constructing technosciences25 -- 11 The meaning of the terms: science and Technoscience' 25 -- 12 Technoscientific ponderabilities and dilemmas 33 -- 13 Epistemic and practical framework 38 -- 14 Nano-Technoscience 47 -- 2 Modeling technology assessment -- 21 Public demands and the process of TA-institutionalization -- 22 Methodology of technology assessment -- 221 Forecasting and scenarios building -- 222 Models of assessment -- 223 Participative turn and assessment practice -- 23 Technology assessment as governance' of technosciences -- 3 Combining converging technologies 95 -- 31 The political background of the NBIC-convergence 95 -- 32 Technological convergence and its societal background 105 -- 321 Convergence and the holistic unity of science107 -- 322 The understanding and the fields of convergence 110 -- 323 Social impacts and potential of converging technologies 112 -- 33 Theoretical frames of convergence and ways of application 118 -- 331 The tetrahedron model of NBIC-convergence 120 -- 332 The problem of incommensurability 123 -- 4 Technosciences: Towards �convergence5and �assessment5 131 -- Part B Nano-domain: Theoretical framework -- 5 Nanotechnology in historical context -- and the problem of definition143 -- 51 General understanding of the nano-domain 143 -- 52 References by defining nanotechnology 150 -- 521 Nano-measurement and calibration procedures 152 -- 522 Systemic aspects: �Nano' as enabling -- and infrastructure technology156 -- 523 �Nano5as socio-political construct in-between -- of nature and technology159 -- 53 Transition from science5to �technoscience5 162 -- 54 Systematic of the nano-domain: Trading -- zones and interdisciplinarity172 -- 6 Nano-methodology and epistemic dilemmas179 -- 61 Methodical order: Nano-apparatuses and nano-approaches 179 -- 62 Epistemic dimension o f�nano5: Images and visions 185 -- 621 The iconic background of the nano-development 186 -- 622 The �iconoclash5and the heuristics of nano-images 193 -- 63 Heuristics and the nano-derivate: Synergies -- in biology and medicine 201 ISBN 9783631656976