{"product_id":"asian-biotech-9780822348092","title":"Asian Biotech","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia, including genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAsian Biotech\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful examination of Asia’s biotechnology development. The call to understand this realm in terms of situated ethics and communities of fate is persuasive and invites the analysis of more cases to test the robustness of these concepts.” - Wen-Hua Kuo, \u003ci\u003eThe China Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[W]hat bioethicists could learn from anthropological investigations like those presented in this volume is that one should consider the social and cultural contexts in which the practice to be ethically assessed is embedded in order to understand the the practice more thoroughly. And it is this more thorough understanding which will lead to a more nuanced and better refined ethical judgment.” - Soraj Hongladarom, \u003ci\u003eGenomics, Society, and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I for one would strongly recommend this interesting volume to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of biotech in Asia.” - Krishna Ravi Srinivas, \u003ci\u003eAsian Biotech and Development Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his book performs coverage of a region and a complicated sector of the twenty-frst-century economy, and it will certainly prove useful to those interested in globalized medicine and the fast-changing norms regulating research in biomedicine.” - Thomas Cannavino, \u003ci\u003eCultural Critique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This timely and important collection by science-studies scholars provides fascinating glimpses into the ambitious efforts of several Asian countries to deploy biotechnologies to both generate economic growth and provide biosecurity in this age of global science and technology.” - Doogab Yi, \u003ci\u003eChemical Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The need in science studies and anthropology for \u003ci\u003eAsian Biotech\u003c\/i\u003e would be hard to overstate. I was hungry for this book to use in my own teaching and writing, and the meal is as satisfying as I had anticipated. The theoretical framing is astute and generative, and the well-argued and diverse essays are thoroughly fleshed out historically and ethnographically. Nancy N. Chen, Aihwa Ong, and the contributors deserve our thanks. We have just run out of excuses for ongoing Western parochialism in science and technology studies and all of our kindred inquiries into biotechnology.”—\u003cb\u003eDonna Haraway\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Species Meet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This exciting collection of ethnographic essays introduces readers to the deployment of specific biotechnologies in Asia, revealing their enmeshment with local and global politics and a situated ethics that extends to the good of families, communities, and nations, and not merely that of individuals. This book, harbinger of impending futures, demands introspection.”—\u003cb\u003eMargaret Lock\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTwice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”This is the first broad anthropological examination of the biotech movement across Asia. Especially useful are the efforts at understanding how biotechnology affects (and is affected by) major changes in moral experience and ethical imagination that are roiling Asian modernities. A pathbreaking exploration! This collection will be influential.”—\u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e, Director, Asia Center, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAsian Biotech\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful examination of Asia’s biotechnology development. The call to understand this realm in terms of situated ethics and communities of fate is persuasive and invites the analysis of more cases to test the robustness of these concepts.” -- Wen-Hua Kuo * The China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his book performs coverage of a region and a complicated sector of the twenty-frst-century economy, and it will certainly prove useful to those interested in globalized medicine and the fast-changing norms regulating research in biomedicine.” -- Thomas Cannavino * Cultural Critique *\u003cbr\u003e“What bioethicists could learn from anthropological investigations like those presented in this volume is that one should consider the social and cultural contexts in which the practice to be ethically assessed is embedded in order to understand the the practice more thoroughly. And it is this more thorough understanding which will lead to a more nuanced and better refined ethical judgment.” -- Soraj Hongladarom * Genomics, Society and Policy *\u003cbr\u003e“I for one would strongly recommend this interesting volume to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of biotech in Asia.” -- Krishna Ravi Srinivas * Asian Biotech and Development Review *\u003cbr\u003e“This timely and important collection by science-studies scholars provides fascinating glimpses into the ambitious efforts of several Asian countries to deploy biotechnologies to both generate economic growth and provide biosecurity in this age of global science and technology.” -- Doogab Yi * Chemical Heritage *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: An Analytics of Ethics and Biotechnology at Multiple Scales \/ Aihwa Ong 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Excess and Opportunity \u003cbr\u003e The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India \/ Kaushik Sunder Rajan 55\u003cbr\u003e Feeding the Nation: Chinese Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Foods \/ Nancy N. Chen 81\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Bioventures \u003cbr\u003e Asian Regeneration? Nationalism and Internationalism in Stem Cell Research in South Korea and Singapore \/ Charis Thompson 95\u003cbr\u003e Medical Tourism in Thailand \/ Ara Wilson 118\u003cbr\u003e Near-Liberalism: Global Corporate Citizenship and Pharmaceutical Marketing in India \/ Stefan Ecks 144\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Communities of Fate \u003cbr\u003e Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation, and Exchange in Urban China \/ Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, and Phouc V. Le 167\u003cbr\u003e Lifelines: The Ethics of Blood Banking for Family and Beyond \/ Aihwa Ong 190\u003cbr\u003e Embryo Controversies and Governing Stem Cell Research in Japan: How to Regulate Regenerative Futures \/ Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner 215\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Biosovereignty: Mappings of Chineseness \u003cbr\u003e Making Taiwanese (Stem Cells): Identity, Genetics, and Hybridity \/ Jennifer A. Liu 239\u003cbr\u003e Chinese DNA: Genomics and Bionations \/ Wen-ching Sung 263\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Asia's Biotech Bloom \/ Nancy N. Chen 293\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 301\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 319\u003cbr\u003e Index 323","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406062362967,"sku":"9780822348092","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822348092.jpg?v=1730494398","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asian-biotech-9780822348092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}