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| Author | : Aihwa Ong |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2016-10-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822373645 |
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 "Asian" 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 "represent" majority populations in Asia. By deploying genomic science as a public good, researchers reconfigure the relationships between objects, peoples, and spaces, thus rendering "Asia" 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.
| Author | : Aihwa Ong |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2006-07-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780822337485 |
DIVA successor to FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, focusing on the meanings of citizenship to different classes of immigrants and transnational subjects./div
| Author | : Sherryl Vint |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2021-10-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108839002 |
A theorization of how the bioeconomy and biotechnology remake 'life itself,' creating crises in ethics and governance.
| Author | : Saidiya Hartman |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2022-10-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1324021594 |
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
| Author | : Christopher Robert Kaczor |
| Publisher | : Notre Dame Studies in Medical |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780268033262 |
A Defense of Dignity argues that all human beings should be treated with respect and considers how this belief should be applied in controversial cases.
| Author | : Duana Fullwiley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2024-04-23 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0520401166 |
Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve. Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the tabula raza, has a very specific and familiar history—one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways.
| Author | : Ilpo Helén |
| Publisher | : Helsinki University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2024-06-27 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9523691074 |
Genome Finland tells a story of genomic medicine in Finland from the study of rare Finnish diseases in the 1960s and 1970s to the implementation of personalized medicine in the 2020s. The main focus is on the 21st century – the period after the Human Genome Project – and on the establishment of new infrastructures to support genomic medicine, such as biobanks. The book opens up the reasoning and discussions as well as the settings and events through which Finnish medical genetics reached the top level of international biomedicine in the late 1990s, biobanks and biobank research evolved during the 2000s and 2010s, and large transnational public-private partnership projects utilising massive amounts of genome and patient data started to dominate also Finnish research into the 2020s. In particular, Genome Finland examines and exposes the connections between biomedical science, ‘knowledge-based’ economy and business, and innovation policy in Finland during the past decades.
| Author | : Rose Parfitt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2019-01-17 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108617956 |
That all states are free and equal under international law is axiomatic to the discipline. Yet even a brief look at the dynamics of the international order calls that axiom into question. Mobilising fresh archival research and drawing on a tradition of unorthodox Marxist and anti-colonial scholarship, Rose Parfitt develops a new 'modular' legal historiography to make sense of the paradoxical relationship between sovereign equality and inequality. Juxtaposing a series of seemingly unrelated histories against one another, including a radical re-examination of the canonical story of Fascist Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, Parfitt exposes the conditional nature of the process through which international law creates and disciplines new states and their subjects. The result is a powerful critique of international law's role in establishing and perpetuating inequalities of wealth, power and pleasure, accompanied by a call to attend more closely to the strategies of resistance that are generated in that process.
| Author | : Susan Greenhalgh |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2020-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501747053 |
Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects. Focusing on critical domains of daily life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create practical knowledges and innovations, as well as how ordinary people take them up as they pursue the good life. Editors Greenhalgh and Zhang offer a rare, up-close view of the politics of Chinese science-making, showing how everyday logics, practices, and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping contemporary China. By foregrounding the notion of "governing through science," and the contested role of science and technology as instruments of change, this timely book addresses important questions regarding what counts as science in China, what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.
| Author | : Luis Lobo-Guerrero |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2010-10-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136930485 |
This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.
