Introduction
Kieran O’Doherty and Edna Einsiedel
Part 1: The Purpose and Function of Public Participation
1 Giving Power to Public Voice: A Critical Review of Alternative Means of Infusing Citizen Deliberation with Legal Authority or Influence / John Gastil
2 Parliamentary Technology Assessment in Europe and the Role of Public Participation / Leonhard Hennen
3 Democracy, Governance, and Public Engagement: A Critical Assessment / Peter W.B. Phillips
Part 2: External Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Ethics, Society, and Democracy
4 Trust, Accountability, and Participation: Conditions for and Constraints on “New” Democratic Models / Susan Dodds
5 Public Voices or Private Choices? The Role of Public Consultation in the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies / Colin Gavaghan
6 Challenges to Deliberations on Genomics / Michiel Korthals
Part 3: Internal Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Lessons for the Practitioner
7 Deliberative Fears: Citizen Deliberation about Science in a National Consensus Conference / Michael D. Cobb
8 Theorizing Deliberative Discourse / Kieran O’Doherty
Part 4: Institutional Contexts of Public Participation
9 Public Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in Public and Private Policy / David Castle
10 From Public Engagement to Public Policy: Competing Stakeholders and the Path to Law Reform / David Weisbrot
11 Participation in the Canadian Biotechnology Regulatory Regime é Andrea Riccardo Migone and Michael Howlett
Part 5: Modes of and Experiments in Participation
12 Swimming with Salmon: The Use of Journalism to Public Engagement Initiatives on Emerging Biotechnologies é David M. Secko
13 Science Media and Public Participation: The Potential of Drama-Documentaries / Grace Reid
14 N-Reasons: Computer-Mediated Ethical Decision Support for Public Participation / Peter Danielson
15 Contentious New Technology Introductions and e-Participation / Keith Culver
Part 6: Understanding Stakeholders and Publics
16 Rethinking “Publics” and “Participation” in New Governance Contexts: Stakeholder Publics and Extended Forms of Participation / Edna Einsiedel
17 Public Engagement with Human Genetics: A Social Movement Approach / Alexandra Plows
18 The Limits of Liberal Values in the Moral Assessment of Genomic and Technological Innovation / Chloë G.K. Atkins
Contributors
Index