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A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines.

Table of Contents

1 Taiwan Aborigines’ Genes as Black Boxes

2 Aboriginal Peoples’ Genes as Narrated and Contested Assemblages

3 Imposing Genetic Distinctions: Aboriginal Peoples and Alcoholism in Genetics Research

4 Informed Consent in the Austronesian Homeland

5 Were the Maori “Made in Taiwan”?

6 Internet Shopping Carts and Patenting Taiwan’s “Gift to the World”

7 Conclusion: The Agency of the Living Dead in Contested Sovereignty

Notes; References; Index

Living Dead in the Pacific

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780774826600, 978-0774826600
      ISBN10: 0774826606
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Science funding and policy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines.

      Table of Contents

      1 Taiwan Aborigines’ Genes as Black Boxes

      2 Aboriginal Peoples’ Genes as Narrated and Contested Assemblages

      3 Imposing Genetic Distinctions: Aboriginal Peoples and Alcoholism in Genetics Research

      4 Informed Consent in the Austronesian Homeland

      5 Were the Maori “Made in Taiwan”?

      6 Internet Shopping Carts and Patenting Taiwan’s “Gift to the World”

      7 Conclusion: The Agency of the Living Dead in Contested Sovereignty

      Notes; References; Index

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