Biomedical odysseys : fetal cell experiments from cyberspace to China
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書誌事項
Biomedical odysseys : fetal cell experiments from cyberspace to China
(Princeton studies in culture and technology / Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer, series editors)
Princeton University Press, c2017
- : hardcover
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  宮城
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  福島
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  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
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  京都
  大阪
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  奈良
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  鳥取
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  広島
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  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
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  韓国
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-286) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. Biomedical Odysseys looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating on the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. Priscilla Song shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy. Bringing together a decade of ethnographic research in hospital wards, laboratories, and online patient discussion forums, Song opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine.
She illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation. Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, Biomedical Odysseys is the first book to map the transnational life of fetal cell therapies.
目次
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction 1 I Online Mediations 21 Interlude: Planet Paralyzed 23 2 Mobilizing the Paralyzed Online 25 3 Cyberanatomies of Hope 49 4 Where the Virtual Becomes Visceral 73 II Chinese Experiments 99 Interlude: Ode to Olfactory Ensheathing Cells 101 5 Medical Entrepreneurs 105 6 Borderline Tactics 132 III Heterogeneous Evidence 155 Interlude: Clinical Outcomes 157 7 Seeking Truth from Facts 158 8 i-Witnessing 181 Epilogue: On the Cutting Edge 197 Glossary of Chinese Terms 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 241 Index 287
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