Providing the first overview of Asia's emerging biosciences
landscape, this timely and important collection brings together
ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically
modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection
in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South
Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by
country, the contributors identify a significant trend toward state
entrepreneurialism in biotechnology, and they highlight the ways
that political thinking and ethical reasoning are converging around
the biosciences. As ascendant nations in a region of postcolonial
emergence, with an "uncanny surplus" in population and pandemics,
Asian countries treat their populations as sources of opportunity
and risk. Biotech enterprises are allied to efforts to overcome
past humiliations and restore national identity and political
ambition, and they are legitimized as solutions to national
anxieties about food supplies, diseases, epidemics, and unknown
biological crises in the future. Biotechnological responses to
perceived risks stir deep feelings about shared fate, and they
crystallize new ethical configurations, often re-inscribing
traditional beliefs about ethnicity, nation, and race. As many of
the essays in this collection illustrate, state involvement in
biotech initiatives is driving the emergence of "biosovereignty,"
an increasing pressure for state control over biological resources,
commercial health products, corporate behavior, and genetic
based-identities. "Asian Biotech" offers much-needed analysis of
the interplay among biotechnologies, economic growth, biosecurity,
and ethical practices in Asia.
Contributors
Vincanne Adams
Nancy N. Chen
Stefan Ecks
Kathleen Erwin
Phuoc V. Le
Jennifer Liu
Aihwa Ong
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Wen-Ching Sung
Charis Thompson
Ara Wilson
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