Sascha Dickel

soziologische Analysen zur Konstruktion des Neuen Menschen

Enhancement-Utopien

Ulrich Petschow

Jan-Peter Ferdinand

This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing. In addition to evaluating 3D printing’s disruptive potentials against a broader economic background, it also addresses the technology’s potential impacts on sustainability and emerging modes of bottom-up and community-based innovation. Emphasizing these topics from economic, technical, social and environmental perspectives, the book offers a multifaceted overview that scrutinizes the scenario of a fundamental transition: from a centralized to a far more decentralized system of value creation.

3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development

The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation

Sabine Maasen

Christoph Schneider

This book introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society. It aspires to use the breadth of Science and Technology Studies to perform a critical diagnosis of our contemporary culture. Instead of constructing technology as society’s “other”, the book sets out to highlight the both complex and ambivalent entanglements of technologies, sciences and socialities. It provides some tentative steps towards a diagnosis of a society in which individuals and organizations address themselves, their pasts, presents, futures, hopes and problems in technoscientific modes. Technosciences redesign matter, life, self and society. However, they do not operate independently: Technoscientific practices are deeply socially and culturally constituted. The diverse contributions highlight the ongoing technological reconfigurations of rationalities, infrastructures, modes of governance, and publics. The book aims to inspire scholars and students to think and analyze contemporary conditions in new ways drawing on, and expanding, the toolkits of Science and Technology Studies.

Technological Reconfigurations of Science and Society

TechnoScienceSociety

Nils B. Heyen

Anne Brüninghaus

Neue digitale Technologien erleichtern es zunehmend, persönliche gesundheitsbezogene Daten zu generieren, zu analysieren und zu kommunizieren. Immer mehr Menschen nutzen entsprechende Instrumente und Angebote, um Wissen über ihre eigene Gesundheit, ihren Körper und ihr Selbst zu produzieren – etwa im Zuge digitaler Selbstvermessung oder über Gentests im Internet. Die Produktion dieses Wissens steht in einem Spannungsfeld von Selbstbezug und Wissenschaftsbezug, welches für das sich wandelnde Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Medizin und Gesellschaft insgesamt instruktiv ist. Der Sammelband bezeichnet diese wissensproduzierenden, auf die persönliche Gesundheit bezogenen Praktiken von Bürgern und Laien als Personal Health Science und analysiert ihre Ausprägungen, Dynamiken und Kontexte.

Persönliches Gesundheitswissen zwischen Selbstsorge und Bürgerforschung

Personal Health Science

Sascha Dickel

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