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Hardback. Ethnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia, including genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Editor(s): Ong, Aihwa; Chen, Nancy N. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 344 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; KNDC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618. Ethics and Communities of Fate. Series: Experimental Futures. 328 pages, 3 illustrations. Editor(s): Ong, Aihwa; Chen, Nancy N. Ethnographic essays that examine the effects of biotechnology in the Asia-Pacific region, including its influence on forms of governance, economy and national identity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; KNDC; PDR. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 26. Weight: 618.
Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by country, the contributors identify a significant trend toward state entrepreneurialism in biotechnology, and they highlight the ways that political thinking and ethical reasoning are converging around the biosciences. As ascendant nations in a region of postcolonial emergence, with an “uncanny surplus” in population and pandemics, ... Read more
Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by country, the contributors identify a significant trend toward state entrepreneurialism in biotechnology, and they highlight the ways that political thinking and ethical reasoning are converging around the biosciences. As ascendant nations in a region of postcolonial emergence, with an “uncanny surplus” in population and pandemics, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
Experimental Futures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347934
SKU
V9780822347934
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About Ong
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, both also published by Duke University Press. Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. She is the author of Food, Medicine, and the ... Read more
Reviews for Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
“Asian Biotech is a thoughtful examination of Asia’s biotechnology development. The call to understand this realm in terms of situated ethics and communities of fate is persuasive and invites the analysis of more cases to test the robustness of these concepts.” - Wen-Hua Kuo, The China Quarterly “[W]hat bioethicists could learn from anthropological investigations like those presented in this volume ... Read more