Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia Assemblages of Life

by Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780230274839
• ISBN10: 0230274838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-04-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the concept of life assemblages, drawing attention to the diverging ways in which societies share questions of what is a life worth living. In accordance with the urgency, gist and expression of such questions, societies deal with the regulation of new developments and practices in life science research and mobilise available political mechanisms to deliberate them.

Seventeen empirical case studies debate themes ranging from population planning, reproductive decision-making, genetic testing and genomics to human embryonic stem cell research and experimental stem cell therapies in Asian countries. The debates outlined also shed light on theoretical conceptualisations of eugenics, biopower, risk signatures, population studies, public deliberation, reproductive choice, bioethics, bionetworking, international science collaboration, public deliberation, research objects and scientific development in countries of different levels of wealth.

Author Biography

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

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 Publics in East Asian Life Assemblages: Risk, Debate and the Professionalization of Bioethics
7. Life Assemblages and Bionetworking: Developments in Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in India and Japan
8.Reframing the Global Moral Economy of Biotech in Asia: Life Assemblages and Research Objects