Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate

Author(s)

• Ong, Aihwa
• Chen, Nancy N.

Bibliographic Information

Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate

edited by Aihwa Ong and Nancy N. Chen

（Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices）

Duke University Press, 2010

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction: an analytics of biotechnology and ethics at multiple scales / Aihwa Ong
• The experimental machinery of global clinical trials : case studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
• Feeding the nation : Chinese biotechnology and genetically modified foods / Nancy N. Chen
• Asian regeneration? : nationalism and internationalism in stem cell research in South Korea and Singapore / Charis Thompson
• Medical tourism in Thailand / Ara Wilson
• Near-liberalism : global corporate citizenship and pharmaceutical marketing in India / Stefan Ecks
• Governing through blood : biology, donation, and exchange in urban China / Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, and Phouc V. Le
• Lifelines: the ethics of blood banking for family and beyond / Aihwa Ong
• Embryo controversies and governing stem cell research in Japan : how to regulate regenerative futures / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
• Making Taiwanese (stem cells) : identity, genetics, and hybridity / Jennifer A. Liu
• Chinese DNA : genomics and bionation / Wen-ching Sung

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, Asian countries treat their populations as sources of opportunity and risk. Biotech enterprises are allied to efforts to overcome past humiliations and restore national identity and political ambition, and they are legitimized as solutions to national anxieties about food supplies, diseases, epidemics, and unknown biological crises in the future. Biotechnological responses to perceived risks stir deep feelings about shared fate, and they crystallize new ethical configurations, often re-inscribing traditional beliefs about ethnicity, nation, and race. As many of the essays in this collection illustrate, state involvement in biotech initiatives is driving the emergence of "biosovereignty," an increasing pressure for state control over biological resources, commercial health products, corporate behavior, and genetic based-identities. Asian Biotech offers much-needed analysis of the interplay among biotechnologies, economic growth, biosecurity, and ethical practices in Asia.Contributors Vincanne Adams Nancy N. Chen Stefan Ecks Kathleen Erwin Phuoc V. Le Jennifer Liu Aihwa Ong Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner Kaushik Sunder Rajan Wen-Ching Sung Charis Thompson Ara Wilson

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB05177405
• ISBN:
  • 9780822347934
  • 9780822348092
• LCCN: 2010017239
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham [N.C.]
• Pages/Volumes: 335 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD9999.B443
  • DC22 : 338.4/76606095
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biotechnology -- Asia
  • LCSH : Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Asia
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA86500554