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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “margaret sleeboom”
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  • Academic Nations in China and Japan

    Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal

    by Margaret Sleeboom ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how academics classify themselves and how they divide the world into groups of people.Margaret Sleeboom ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Regulatory Violence

    The Global Dynamics of Regulatory Experimentation in Biomedicine and Health

    by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomedicine condition the development of jurisdictive regulations. But regulation that fails to guarantee a jurisdiction's optimal protection of patients and scientific research in favour of other interests commits foreseeable and avoidable “regulatory ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Stem Cell Research in Asia

    Looking Beyond Regulatory Exteriors

    Edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ...
    The great hurry to realise promised cures in stem cell research requires regulation to guarantee bioethical research practices. Yet, increasingly similar national guidelines for stem cell research yields a range of diverging research practices. This book shows how the different rationale of regulation affects stem cell research practices in Asia. In low- and medium income countries such as India ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia

    Politics of trust and scientific advancement

    Edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This volume investigates human genetic biobanking and its regulation in various Asian countries and areas, including Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia.. It sheds light on how cultural, socio-political and economic factors influence the set-up of bioethical regulation for human genetic biobanks and how bioethical sensitivities surrounding biobanks are handled.Apart from ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Genomics In Asia

    by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ...
    "Genomics in Asia" focuses on issues dealing with the development and application of molecular biology and bioengineering technologies in Asian societies and cultures. The workshop on which this book is based aimed to gain an insight into bioethical issues with relation to the dynamics of Asian societies, cultures and religions. It was to generate debate on Asian Genomics and create a basis for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Fungible Life

    Experiment in the Asian City of Life

    by Aihwa Ong ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • New Genetics, New Social Formations

    Edited by Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and avoid the perceived democratic deficit that may result. Papers in this volume discuss a variety of ... Read more

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  • Responsible Conduct of Research

    by Adil E. Shamoo, David B. Resnik ...
    Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second edition, provides an introduction to the social, ethical, and legal issues facing scientists today. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Asian Biotech

    Ethics and Communities of Fate

    by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Charis Thompson ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    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, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society

    Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Janelle Lamoreaux ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and social sciences. Building from and extending the first Routledge Handbook of Genetics and Society, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to pivotal themes within the field, an overview of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences

    A call for decolonising global governance

    by Joy Y. Zhang, Saheli Datta Burton ...
    Series Book 5 - Inscriptions
    This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in the two countries’ rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD