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Fungible Life - Experiment in the Asian City of Life (Hardcover)
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Fungible Life - Experiment in the Asian City of Life (Hardcover)
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In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of
cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into
the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan
sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the
threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers in Singapore and
China scientists map genetic variants, disease risks, and
biomarkers, mobilizing ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data
for genomic research. Their differentiation between Chinese,
Indian, and Malay DNA makes fungible Singapore's ethnic-stratified
databases that come to "represent" majority populations in Asia. By
deploying genomic science as a public good, researchers reconfigure
the relationships between objects, peoples, and spaces, thus
rendering "Asia" itself as a shifting entity. In Ong's analysis,
Asia emerges as a richly layered mode of entanglements, where the
population's genetic pasts, anxieties and hopes, shared genetic
weaknesses, and embattled genetic futures intersect. Furthermore,
her illustration of the contrasting methods and goals of the
Biopolis biomedical center in Singapore and BGI Genomics in China
raises questions about the future direction of cosmopolitan science
in Asia and beyond.
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