Fungible life : experiment in the Asian city of life
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Fungible life : experiment in the Asian city of life
Duke University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index
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In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers in Singapore and China scientists map genetic variants, disease risks, and biomarkers, mobilizing ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research. Their differentiation between Chinese, Indian, and Malay DNA makes fungible Singapore's ethnic-stratified databases that come to "represent" majority populations in Asia. By deploying genomic science as a public good, researchers reconfigure the relationships between objects, peoples, and spaces, thus rendering "Asia" itself as a shifting entity. In Ong's analysis, Asia emerges as a richly layered mode of entanglements, where the population's genetic pasts, anxieties and hopes, shared genetic weaknesses, and embattled genetic futures intersect. Furthermore, her illustration of the contrasting methods and goals of the Biopolis biomedical center in Singapore and BGI Genomics in China raises questions about the future direction of cosmopolitan science in Asia and beyond.
目次
Prologue: Enigmatic Variations ix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Inventing a City of Life 1
Part I. Risks
1. Where the Wild Genes Are 29
2. An Atlas of Asian Diseases 51
3. Smoldering Fire 73
Part II. Uncertainties
4. The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics 93
5. Virtue and Expatriate Scientists 113
6. Perturbing Life 136
Part III. Known Unknowns
7. A Single Wave 157
8. "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" 174
9. The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future 197
Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden 223
Notes 239
Bibliography 257
Index 271
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