Ong / Chen / Fischer Asian Biotech

Ethics and Communities of Fate
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9320-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ong, Aihwa

Chen, Nancy N.

Fischer, Michael M. J.

Dumit, Joseph

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik

Thompson, Charis

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Analytics of Ethics and Biotechnology at Multiple Scales / Aihwa Ong 1

Part I. Excess and Opportunity

The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 55

Feeding the Nation: Chinese Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Foods / Nancy N. Chen 81

Part II. Bioventures

Asian Regeneration? Nationalism and Internationalism in Stem Cell Research in South Korea and Singapore / Charis Thompson 95

Medical Tourism in Thailand / Ara Wilson 118

Near-Liberalism: Global Corporate Citizenship and Pharmaceutical Marketing in India / Stefan Ecks 144

Part III. Communities of Fate

Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation, and Exchange in Urban China / Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, and Phouc V. Le 167

Lifelines: The Ethics of Blood Banking for Family and Beyond / Aihwa Ong 190

Embryo Controversies and Governing Stem Cell Research in Japan: How to Regulate Regenerative Futures / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner 215

Part IV. Biosovereignty: Mappings of Chineseness

Making Taiwanese (Stem Cells): Identity, Genetics, and Hybridity / Jennifer A. Liu 239

Chinese DNA: Genomics and Bionations / Wen-ching Sung 263

Afterword: Asia's Biotech Bloom / Nancy N. Chen 293

Bibliography 301

Contributors 319

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

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 Quest for Good Health and Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China.