The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China

by J. Zhang

Overview

Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349337637
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JOY YUEYUE ZHANG Fernand Braudel Fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. She previously worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Note on Transliteration Cosmopolitanization and China's Stem Cell Research: An Introduction Regulatory Framework and Early Administrative Rationales Research Motivations for Stem Cell Research Emerging Reflexivity in Transnational Communication Tizhi Wenti I: The Social Organization of Stem Cell Research Tizhi Wenti II: Governance on Research Funding and Performance Evaluation Stem Cell Therapy and the Governance of Uncertainty Conclusion Notes Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'This is a highly original, ground breaking study as it enriches cosmopolitan theory with empirical data from a developing country.' - Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology, University of Munich, Germany

'Joy Zhang delivers a lucid and pioneering account of non-western science-in-the-making. This important book will be of value to a wide range of scholars by elucidating not only the cosmopolitanization of science in China, but how this process can be analysed sociologically, and why such research matters.' - Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK

'Zhang deftly illuminates the worlds of stem cell research and ethical governance in China. Rather than situate scientific knowledge in terms of flows from East to West, or vice versa,this book illustrates how national agendas of science reframe knowledge and material practices as cosmopolitan.' - Nancy N. Chen, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Editorial Reviews

The book provides a trans-disciplinary readership with an original, detailed, nuanced and solid empirical account of a focus area in contemporary china. … it is a laudable and invaluable pioneering work. … This book makes a serious attempt to remind the research community of the need for an appropriate methodology.” (Ole Döring, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Issue 40, 2014)

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