Fungible Life : Experiment in the Asian City of Life /

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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 center...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ong, Aihwa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects > Asia.
Biotechnology > Political aspects > Asia.
Medical sciences > Research > Asia.
Research parks > Singapore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue: Enigmatic Variations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Inventing a City of Life
  • PART I. RISKS
  • 1 Where the Wild Genes Are
  • 2 An Atlas of Asian Diseases
  • 3 Smoldering Fire
  • PART II. UNCERTAINTIES
  • 4 The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics
  • 5 Virtue and Expatriate Scientists
  • 6 Perturbing Life
  • PART III. KNOWN UNKNOWNS
  • 7 A Single Wave
  • 8 "Viruses Don't Carry Passports"
  • 9 The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future
  • Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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