Ong Aihwa Ong

Fungible Life (eBook, PDF)

Experiment in the Asian City of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;Asian"e; 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 "e;represent"e; majority populations in Asia. By deploying genomic science as a public good, researchers reconfigure the relationships between objects, peoples, and spaces, thus rendering "e;Asia"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373643
• Artikelnr.: 54682759

Autorenporträt

Aihwa Ong is Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, and the coeditor of Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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