Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate
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Bibliographic Information
Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate
(Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices)
Duke University Press, 2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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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