Cover -- Table of content -- Foreword -- Caring about the future of the collective. Monitoring technoscience in the sociology of risk and science and technology studies (by Ewa Bińczyk) -- A. Starting point -- The modern shape of technoscience -- B. Proposals -- Beck's cosmopolitanism and the challenges posed by the risk society -- Latour's "politics of nature" -- Transformation of the boundary conditions of the public debate on innovation -- Concrete ways of expanding participation (and their respective weaknesses) -- The Precautionary Principle, Technology Assessment (TA) and select examples of other institutional solutions -- The macro-ethics of global responsibility -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Nanotechnology. Assessment and Convergence inside the Technoscience (by Tomasz Stępień) -- A. Constitution of Nano-Domain as Science and Technology -- 1. The background of technological convergence: From 'normal' to 'post-normal' science -- 1.1. Theoretical framework of nanotechnology -- 1.2. Methodological aspects of nanotechnology -- 1.3. Dimensions of nanotechnology and the necessity of modified theory of science -- 2. Science and society relationship in the case of nano-domain -- 2.1. Nanotechnology and the concept of a socially robust science -- 2.2. Political background and societal impacts of nano-domain -- 2.3. Nanotechnology and the public opinion: Politics of nano-images -- B. Nanotechnology and Development of Assessment Regime -- 3. General issues of risk assessment by converging technologies -- 4. Nanotechnology: risk assessment and precautionary principle -- 4.1. Characteristics of risk in nanotechnology -- 4.2. Risk management in nanotechnology -- 4.3. Strategies by nano-risk communication and nano-visions assessment -- C. Ethical Aspects: Nano-Safety and Nanotoxicology -- 5. Nano-Safety and Nanotoxicology.

6. Ethical, legal and societal implications of nanotechnology -- 7. Nanoethics or explorative philosophy of nanotechnology -- D. Convergence and Nanotechnology Assessment -- 8. Converging technologies: Categories, principles and fields -- 9. Principle of technological convergence -- 10. Multidisciplinary framework of nanotechnology assessment -- References -- Index.