Title: Local cells, global science : the rise of embryonic stem cell research in India /
Authors: Bharadwaj, Aditya, 1971-; Glasner, Peter E.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Social Change; Internationality; Ethical Relativism; Embryo Research legislation & jurisprudence; Embryo Research ethics; Embryonic Stem Cells; Embryonic stem cells Research India.; Embryonic stem cells Research Cross-cultural studies.; India; India
Contents: The local, global and contextual : an introduction -- Dis-locations : local cultures of cells, global transactions in science -- Biosociality to bio-crossings : encounters with embryonic stem cells in India -- Sacrificial gifts : infertile citizens and the moral economy of embryos -- Miraculous stem cells : the liminal third space and media rhetoric -- One ethic fits all? : complexities in cross-cultural standardization, bioethics and regulatory protocols.