Biomedical Odysseys : Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China /

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Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative diso...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Song, Priscilla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology ; 12
Temas:
Hematopoietic stem cells > Transplantation > China.
Medical ethics > China.
Stem cells > Research > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
ALS.
CareCure.
China.
Chinese clinicians.
Chinese medicine.
Chinese neurosurgeons.
Dr. Huang Hongyun.
Huang Hongyun.
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
biomediation.
biomedical practice.
biomedical research protocols.
biomedical science.
biomedicine.
chronicity.
clinical experimentation.
cybersociality.
experimental medicine.
experimental medicines.
experimental surgery.
experimental therapy.
experimental treatment.
fetal cell transplantation.
foreign patients.
hope.
illness.
institutional practice.
market socialism.
medical entrepreneurialism.
medical entrepreneurs.
medical practice.
neurodegenerative condition.
neurodegenerative disorders.
neurosurgeon.
olfactory ensheathing cells.
olfactory ensheathing glia.
online discussion forum.
paralysis.
patient activism.
regenerative medicine.
spinal cord injuries.
spinal cord injury.
surgical intervention.
technonationalism.
transplantation.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • PART I: ONLINE MEDIATIONS
  • Interlude: Planet Paralyzed
  • Chapter 2: Mobilizing the Paralyzed Online
  • Chapter 3: Cyberanatomies of Hope
  • Chapter 4: Where the Virtual Becomes Visceral
  • PART II: CHINESE EXPERIMENTS
  • Interlude: Ode to Olfactory Ensheathing Cells
  • Chapter 5: Medical Entrepreneurs
  • Chapter 6: Borderline Tactics
  • PART III: HETEROGENEOUS EVIDENCE
  • Interlude: Clinical Outcomes
  • Chapter 7: Seeking Truth from Facts
  • Chapter 8: i-Witnessing
  • Epilogue: On the Cutting Edge
  • Glossary of Chinese Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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