Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China - Couverture souple

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Song, Priscilla

 
9780691174785: Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China
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ISBN 10 : 0691174784 ISBN 13 : 9780691174785
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. Biomedical Odysseys looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating on the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. Priscilla Song shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy.

Bringing together a decade of ethnographic research in hospital wards, laboratories, and online patient discussion forums, Song opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. She illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation.

Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, Biomedical Odysseys is the first book to map the transnational life of fetal cell therapies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Priscilla Song is assistant professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691174784
ISBN 13 
9780691174785
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691174778: Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China

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ISBN 10 :  0691174776 ISBN 13 :  9780691174778
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2017
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