Nanovision

Engineering the Future

Author: Milburn, Colin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822342434
eISBN Pdf: 9780822391487
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2008
Month: October
Pages: 296
DDC: 620/.5
Language: English

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The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we think about our technologies, our societies, our bodies, and even reality itself. Colin Milburn argues that the rise of nanotechnology involves a way of seeing that he calls “nanovision.” Trekking across the technoscapes and the dreamscapes of nanotechnology, he elaborates a theory of nanovision, demonstrating that nanotechnology has depended throughout its history on a symbiotic relationship with science fiction. Nanotechnology’s scientific theories, laboratory instruments, and research programs are inextricable from speculative visions, hyperbolic rhetoric, and fictional narratives.

Milburn illuminates the practices of nanotechnology by examining an enormous range of cultural artifacts, including scientific research articles, engineering textbooks, laboratory images, popular science writings, novels, comic books, and blockbuster films. In so doing, he reveals connections between the technologies of visualization that have helped inaugurate nano research, such as the scanning tunneling microscope, and the prescient writings of Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, and Theodore Sturgeon. He delves into fictive and scientific representations of “gray goo,” the nightmare scenario in which autonomous nanobots rise up in rebellion and wreak havoc on the world. He shows that nanoscience and “splatterpunk” novels share a violent aesthetic of disintegration: the biological body is breached and torn asunder only to be refabricated as an assemblage of self-organizing machines. Whether in high-tech laboratories or science fiction stories, nanovision deconstructs the human subject and galvanizes the invention of a posthuman future.

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Foreword
Chapter 1 History of Adoption
Chapter 2 The Process of Adoption in the United States
Chapter 3 Legal Considerations in Adoption
Chapter 4 Pre-adoption Considerations for Pediatricians
Chapter 5 Prenatal Substance Exposure: Alcohol and Other Substances—Implications for Adoption
Chapter 6 Relating Genetics to Psychiatric Issues for Children With a History of Adoption
Chapter 7 The Neurobiology of Risk and Resilience in Adopted Children
Chapter 8 Post-adoptive Evaluation for the Health Care Professional
Chapter 9 Immediate Developmental and Behavioral Challenges Post-adoption
Chapter 10 The Long-term Consequences of Child Maltreatment
Chapter 11 Long-term Developmental and Behavioral Issues Following Adoption
Chapter 12 Long-term Growth and Puberty Concerns
Chapter 13 Attachment and the Adopted Child
Chapter 14 Speech and Language Outcomes After International Adoption
Chapter 15 Identifying and Accessing Supports: Strategies for Addressing Long-term Issues
Chapter 16 Working With Schools: Considerations for Adopted Children and Their Families
Chapter 17 Adoptive Identity and Children’s Understanding of Adoption: Implications for Pediatric Practice
Chapter 18 Working With Adoptive Families: What Every Professional Should Know
Appendix 1: Intercountry Adoption Under the Hague Convention
Appendix 2: Resources for Foster and Adoptive Parents
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