Ong Fungible Life

Experiment in the Asian City of Life
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7364-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ong, Aihwa

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Enigmatic Variations ix

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction: Inventing a City of Life 1

Part I. Risks

1. Where the Wild Genes Are 29

2. An Atlas of Asian Diseases 51

3. Smoldering Fire 73

Part II. Uncertainties

4. The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics 93

5. Virtue and Expatriate Scientists 113

6. Perturbing Life 136

Part III. Known Unknowns

7. A Single Wave 157

8. "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" 174

9. The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future 197

Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden 223

Notes 239

Bibliography 257

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Aihwa Ong is Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, and the coeditor of Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate, all also published by Duke University Press.