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Author Ong, Aihwa, author

Title Fungible life : experiment in the Asian city of life / Aihwa Ong
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016

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Contents Where the wild genes are -- An atlas of Asian diseases -- Smoldering fire -- The productive uncertainty of bioethics -- Virtue and expatriate scientists -- Perturbing life -- A single wave -- "Viruses don't carry passports" -- The "athlete gene" in China's future -- Epilogue: A DNA bridge and an octopus's garden
Summary In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized ""Asian"" bodies and health data for genomic research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biopolis (Singapore)
SUBJECT Biopolis (Singapore) fast
Subject Research parks -- Singapore.
Medical sciences -- Research -- Asia
Biotechnology -- Political aspects -- Asia
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Asia
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Biotechnology -- Political aspects
Medical sciences -- Research
Research parks
Anthropologische Medizin
Biomedizin
Biotechnologie
Genomik
Genanalyse
Gesundheitspolitik
Ethnizität
Vorsorgeuntersuchung
Technopoles -- Singapour.
Sciences de la santé -- Recherche -- Singapour.
Biotechnologie -- Aspect politique -- Asie.
Biotechnologie -- Aspect moral -- Asie.
Asia
Singapore
China
Singanpur
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016023363
ISBN 9780822373643
0822373645