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Title Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate / edited by Aihwa Ong and Nancy N. Chen
Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations
Series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific Arts, anthropological voices
Experimental futures.
Contents Introduction: an analytics of ethics and biotechnology in global space / Aihwa Ong -- The experimental machinery of global clinical trials : case studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Feeding the nation : Chinese biotechnology and genetically modified foods / Nancy N. Chen -- Asian regeneration? : nationalism and internationalism in stem cell research in South Korea and Singapore / Charis Thompson -- Medical tourism in Thailand / Ara Wilson -- Near-liberalism : global corporate citizenship and pharmaceutical marketing in India / Stefan Ecks -- Governing through blood : biology, donation, and exchange in urban China / Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, and Phouc V. Le -- Lifelines: the ethics of blood banking for family and beyond / Aihwa Ong -- Embryo controversies and governing stem cell research in Japan : how to regulate regenerative futures / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Making Taiwanese (stem cells) : identity, genetics, and hybridity / Jennifer A. Liu -- Chinese DNA : genomics and bionation / Wen-ching Sung
Summary Ethnographic essays that examine the effects of biotechnology in the Asia-Pacific region, including its influence on forms of governance, economy, and national identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai gnd
China Zusammenstellung gnd
Subject Biotechnology -- Asia
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Asia
Manners and customs.
Diffusion of innovations.
Biotechnology -- ethics
Asian People -- ethnology
Cultural Characteristics
Diffusion of Innovation
Ethics, Research
customs (social concepts)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Manners and customs
Diffusion of innovations
Biotechnology
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Biotechnologie
Wissenschaftsethik
Genomik
Organhandel
Blutbank
Stammzelle
SUBJECT Asia
Subject Asia
Asien
Indien
Singapur
Südkorea
Taiwan
Form Electronic book
Author Ong, Aihwa
Chen, Nancy N
ISBN 9780822393207
0822393204
1283065738
9781283065733
9786613065735
6613065730