Global morality and life science practices in Asia : assemblages of life
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Global morality and life science practices in Asia : assemblages of life
(Health, technology and society)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index
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Description
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: From Global Moral Economy to Assemblages of Life 2. Reassembling Populations: Questions of Eugenics in China, India and Japan 3. Biopower and Life Assemblages: Genetic Carrier Testing in India, China and Japan 4. Human Genetic Biobanking and Life Assemblages in Asia: Transnational Moral Economies of Health, Progress and Exploitation 5. Life Assemblages of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China and Japan: Bioethical Problematisations and Bioethical Boundary Making 6. Scientists and Publics in East Asian Life Assemblages: Risk, Debate and the Professionalization of Bioethics 7. Life Assemblages and Bionetworking: Developments in Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in India and Japan 8. Reframing the Global Moral Economy of Biotech in Asia: Life Assemblages and Research Objects
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