Asian Biotech (eBook, PDF)

Ethics and Communities of Fate
Redaktion: Aihwa Ong, Ong

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;uncanny surplus"e; 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 "e;biosovereignty,"e; 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.ContributorsVincanne AdamsNancy N. ChenStefan EcksKathleen ErwinPhuoc V. LeJennifer LiuAihwa OngMargaret Sleeboom-FaulknerKaushik Sunder RajanWen-Ching SungCharis ThompsonAra Wilson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393207
• Artikelnr.: 54814914

Autorenporträt

Aihwa Ong and Nancy N. Chen, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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