Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia [electronic resource] : Assemblages of Life /
Sleeboom-Faulkner, M.author.
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on (Co-) authors of the Case Studies; 1 Introduction: From Global Moral Economy to Assemblages of Life; 2 Reassembling Populations: Questions of Eugenics in China, India and Japan; 3 Biopower and Life Assemblages: Genetic Carrier Testing in India, China and Japan; 4 Human Genetic Biobanking and Life Assemblages in Asia: Transnational Moral Economies of Health, Progress and Exploitation; 5 Life Assemblages of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China and Japan: Bioethical Problematisations and Bioethical Boundary-making
6 Scientists and the Public in East Asian Life Assemblages: Risk, Debate and the Professionalisation of Bioethics7 Life Assemblages and Bionetworking: Developments in Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in India and Japan; 8 Reframing the Global Moral Economy: Life Assemblages and Research Objects; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Social policy.
Social medicine.
Ethnology—Asia.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Biomedical engineering.
Social Policy.
Medical Sociology.
Asian Culture.
Sociology, general.
Anthropology.
Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.