Sarah Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0653-6741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the hype: ‘Acceptable futures’ for AI and robotic technologies in healthcare
AI and robotic technologies attract much hype, including utopian and dystopian future visions of technologically driven provision in the health and care sectors. Based on 30 interviews with scientists, clinicians and other stakeholders in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, and New Zealand, this paper interrogates how those engaged in developing and using AI and robotic applications in health and care characterize their future promise, potential and …
Inter-regional development in China: An assessment
China’s regional planning and development has been a key national priority since the start of economic reform and opening up. China’s regional development strategy has constantly evolved and has shifted to prioritizing integrated areas and mega-clusters to promote internal connectivity, increase urbanization and employment, and consequently, domestic consumption. This is distinct from past regional rebalancing initiatives, which were mainly aimed…
Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: Unresolved questions and future directions
Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly in response to these challenges, various models of public involvement in research are being introduced. Yet, the ways in which public involvement should meet governance challenges are not well understood. We conducted a qualitative study with 36 exper…
What makes AI 'intelligent' and 'caring'? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care
Ethical considerations in the use of GPS-based movement tracking in health research – lessons from a care-seeking study in rural west India
Use of technology for movement tracking for health research in low and middle income countries invokes ethical challenges especially those related to privacy, confidentiality and risk of spatial re-identification
Contested futures: Envisioning “Personalized,” “Stratified,” and “Precision” medicine
In recent years, discourses around "personalized," "stratified," and "precision" medicine have proliferated. These concepts broadly refer to the translational potential carried by new data-intensive biomedical research modes. Each describes expectations about the future of medicine and healthcare that data-intensive innovation promises to bring forth. The definitions and uses of the concepts are, however, plural, contested and characterized by di…
Marketing Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in the UK: Biomedical Lifestyle Products and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine in the Digital Era
Stem cell research has attracted much public and biomedical anticipation centred on the possibility of using stem cells to treat various diseases and conditions, but the number of evidence-based therapies is currently limited. Numerous commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses are nonetheless marketing experimental stem cell therapies online for myriad medical conditions and aesthetic ailments, which has attracted critique due to safety and …
The Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for China and East Asian Economies
The China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a formidabledevelopment programme and its implications will be far reaching for East Asia, including ASEAN and China. It will provide further momentum for intra-Asian investment and trade flows and the implementation of such a strategy will also help to accelerate China's mergers and acquisitions activities in infrastructure, logistics and tourism. The BRI is expected to raise the Renm…
In search of a post-genomic bioethics: Lessons from Political Biology
China’s Mounting Corporate Debt
China’s corporate debt has risen sharply since the 2008–09 global financial crisis, although the pace of growth has somewhat moderated due to the authorities’ recent financial deleveraging efforts and regulatory tightening. To address the surging debt problem and elevated corporate leverage, comprehensive structural reforms in the corporate, financial, and fiscal sectors are necessary
Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques, Scientific Tourism, and the Global Politics of Science
The United Kingdom is the first and so far only country to pass explicit legislation allowing for the licensed use of the new reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement therapy. The techniques used in this technology may prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA diseases, but they are controversial because they involve the manipulation of oocytes or embryos and the transfer of genetic material. Some commentators have even sugg…
How to Rethink the Fourteen‐Day Rule
Recently, attention has been drawn to the basic principles governing the use of human embryos in research: specifically, the so‐called fourteen‐day rule. This rule stipulates that human embryos should not be allowed to grow in vitro past fourteen days of development. For years, the fourteen‐day limit was largely theoretical, since culture techniques were not sufficient to maintain embryos up to this point. Yet in the past year, research has sugge…
Policy Challenges in Maintaining Renminbi Stability in China
This paper examines the policy challenges and dilemmas faced by China’s authorities in balancing exchange rate stability with the policy necessity of monetary autonomy. China will have to move toward greater exchange rate flexibility, particularly as the capital account becomes increasingly liberalized and the government pushes forward with RMB internationalization
Genome editing and international regulatory challenges: Lessons from Mexico
From Reason to Practice in Bioethics: An Anthology Dedicated to the Works of John Harris
Climatology of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone at a Maritime Subarctic-Alpine Site, Mealy Mountains, Labrador
Climatological investigations were conducted from 2001 to 2009 in the central Mealy Mountains, Labrador (53.6 ̊ N), as part of interdisciplinary research on tree line ecology and climate change. The aim was to describe local climatic and edaphic variables along an altitudinal gradient from the closed forest edge to the alpine tundra and to relate recent changes in regional climate to potential changes in the forest tundra ecotone. Results show re…
Breaking the middle income trap: Challenges for Indonesia
Indonesia’s remarkable performance over the past decade has held much promise to market analysts as well as institutions like the World Bank that the country has the potential to become more prosperous and achieve inclusive growth. While Indonesia’s potential for faster growth is underpinned by its favourable demographics and continuing urbanization, it faces various structural challenges, which if unmet, will constrain long-term growth prospects…
The ‘ownership’ of science
Dr Catherine Rhodes is a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation specialising in the international regulations relevant to control of biotechnology. Professor John Harris is director of the Institute and has particular interest in biomedical ethics and medical jurisprudence. Sarah Chan is deputy director of the Institute. Professor Sir John Sulston was the founding director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in Cambri…
In Support of Human Enhancement
This short comment presents arguments in support of human enhancement.What is enhancement? Surely it is a procedure that improves our functioning: any intervention which increases our general capabilities for human flourishing. We exclude from consideration those procedures often termed ``enhancements" that are of dubious overall benefit (for example breast or penis augmentation, or the taking of anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass). Equall…
Trilateral trade relations among China, Japan and South Korea: Challenges and prospects of regional economic integration
China-Asean Free Trade Agreement: Shaping Future Economic Relations
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has been hailed as a landmark pact in pushing for freer trade between China and the ASEAN countries. With the establishment of the free trade zone, trade and investment between the Chinese and ASEAN economies are expected to increase significantly; but while the economic benefits are inexorable, the extent of gains derived from closer integration hinges on the Sino-ASEAN economic relationship, which is both co…
What makes AI 'intelligent' and 'caring'? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care
The Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for China and East Asian Economies
The China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a formidabledevelopment programme and its implications will be far reaching for East Asia, including ASEAN and China. It will provide further momentum for intra-Asian investment and trade flows and the implementation of such a strategy will also help to accelerate China's mergers and acquisitions activities in infrastructure, logistics and tourism. The BRI is expected to raise the Renm…
China-Asean Free Trade Agreement: Shaping Future Economic Relations
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has been hailed as a landmark pact in pushing for freer trade between China and the ASEAN countries. With the establishment of the free trade zone, trade and investment between the Chinese and ASEAN economies are expected to increase significantly; but while the economic benefits are inexorable, the extent of gains derived from closer integration hinges on the Sino-ASEAN economic relationship, which is both co…
Trilateral trade relations among China, Japan and South Korea: Challenges and prospects of regional economic integration
Breaking the middle income trap: Challenges for Indonesia
Indonesia’s remarkable performance over the past decade has held much promise to market analysts as well as institutions like the World Bank that the country has the potential to become more prosperous and achieve inclusive growth. While Indonesia’s potential for faster growth is underpinned by its favourable demographics and continuing urbanization, it faces various structural challenges, which if unmet, will constrain long-term growth prospects…
China-Asean Free Trade Agreement: Shaping Future Economic Relations
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has been hailed as a landmark pact in pushing for freer trade between China and the ASEAN countries. With the establishment of the free trade zone, trade and investment between the Chinese and ASEAN economies are expected to increase significantly; but while the economic benefits are inexorable, the extent of gains derived from closer integration hinges on the Sino-ASEAN economic relationship, which is both co…
Trilateral trade relations among China, Japan and South Korea: Challenges and prospects of regional economic integration
In Support of Human Enhancement
This short comment presents arguments in support of human enhancement.What is enhancement? Surely it is a procedure that improves our functioning: any intervention which increases our general capabilities for human flourishing. We exclude from consideration those procedures often termed ``enhancements" that are of dubious overall benefit (for example breast or penis augmentation, or the taking of anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass). Equall…
The ‘ownership’ of science
Dr Catherine Rhodes is a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation specialising in the international regulations relevant to control of biotechnology. Professor John Harris is director of the Institute and has particular interest in biomedical ethics and medical jurisprudence. Sarah Chan is deputy director of the Institute. Professor Sir John Sulston was the founding director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in Cambri…
Climatology of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone at a Maritime Subarctic-Alpine Site, Mealy Mountains, Labrador
Climatological investigations were conducted from 2001 to 2009 in the central Mealy Mountains, Labrador (53.6 ̊ N), as part of interdisciplinary research on tree line ecology and climate change. The aim was to describe local climatic and edaphic variables along an altitudinal gradient from the closed forest edge to the alpine tundra and to relate recent changes in regional climate to potential changes in the forest tundra ecotone. Results show re…
Breaking the middle income trap: Challenges for Indonesia
Indonesia’s remarkable performance over the past decade has held much promise to market analysts as well as institutions like the World Bank that the country has the potential to become more prosperous and achieve inclusive growth. While Indonesia’s potential for faster growth is underpinned by its favourable demographics and continuing urbanization, it faces various structural challenges, which if unmet, will constrain long-term growth prospects…
From Reason to Practice in Bioethics: An Anthology Dedicated to the Works of John Harris
Genome editing and international regulatory challenges: Lessons from Mexico
Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques, Scientific Tourism, and the Global Politics of Science
The United Kingdom is the first and so far only country to pass explicit legislation allowing for the licensed use of the new reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement therapy. The techniques used in this technology may prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA diseases, but they are controversial because they involve the manipulation of oocytes or embryos and the transfer of genetic material. Some commentators have even sugg…
How to Rethink the Fourteen‐Day Rule
Recently, attention has been drawn to the basic principles governing the use of human embryos in research: specifically, the so‐called fourteen‐day rule. This rule stipulates that human embryos should not be allowed to grow in vitro past fourteen days of development. For years, the fourteen‐day limit was largely theoretical, since culture techniques were not sufficient to maintain embryos up to this point. Yet in the past year, research has sugge…
Policy Challenges in Maintaining Renminbi Stability in China
This paper examines the policy challenges and dilemmas faced by China’s authorities in balancing exchange rate stability with the policy necessity of monetary autonomy. China will have to move toward greater exchange rate flexibility, particularly as the capital account becomes increasingly liberalized and the government pushes forward with RMB internationalization
The Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for China and East Asian Economies
The China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a formidabledevelopment programme and its implications will be far reaching for East Asia, including ASEAN and China. It will provide further momentum for intra-Asian investment and trade flows and the implementation of such a strategy will also help to accelerate China's mergers and acquisitions activities in infrastructure, logistics and tourism. The BRI is expected to raise the Renm…
In search of a post-genomic bioethics: Lessons from Political Biology
China’s Mounting Corporate Debt
China’s corporate debt has risen sharply since the 2008–09 global financial crisis, although the pace of growth has somewhat moderated due to the authorities’ recent financial deleveraging efforts and regulatory tightening. To address the surging debt problem and elevated corporate leverage, comprehensive structural reforms in the corporate, financial, and fiscal sectors are necessary
Ethical considerations in the use of GPS-based movement tracking in health research – lessons from a care-seeking study in rural west India
Use of technology for movement tracking for health research in low and middle income countries invokes ethical challenges especially those related to privacy, confidentiality and risk of spatial re-identification
Contested futures: Envisioning “Personalized,” “Stratified,” and “Precision” medicine
In recent years, discourses around "personalized," "stratified," and "precision" medicine have proliferated. These concepts broadly refer to the translational potential carried by new data-intensive biomedical research modes. Each describes expectations about the future of medicine and healthcare that data-intensive innovation promises to bring forth. The definitions and uses of the concepts are, however, plural, contested and characterized by di…
Marketing Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in the UK: Biomedical Lifestyle Products and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine in the Digital Era
Stem cell research has attracted much public and biomedical anticipation centred on the possibility of using stem cells to treat various diseases and conditions, but the number of evidence-based therapies is currently limited. Numerous commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses are nonetheless marketing experimental stem cell therapies online for myriad medical conditions and aesthetic ailments, which has attracted critique due to safety and …
Inter-regional development in China: An assessment
China’s regional planning and development has been a key national priority since the start of economic reform and opening up. China’s regional development strategy has constantly evolved and has shifted to prioritizing integrated areas and mega-clusters to promote internal connectivity, increase urbanization and employment, and consequently, domestic consumption. This is distinct from past regional rebalancing initiatives, which were mainly aimed…
Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: Unresolved questions and future directions
Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly in response to these challenges, various models of public involvement in research are being introduced. Yet, the ways in which public involvement should meet governance challenges are not well understood. We conducted a qualitative study with 36 exper…
What makes AI 'intelligent' and 'caring'? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care
Beyond the hype: ‘Acceptable futures’ for AI and robotic technologies in healthcare
AI and robotic technologies attract much hype, including utopian and dystopian future visions of technologically driven provision in the health and care sectors. Based on 30 interviews with scientists, clinicians and other stakeholders in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, and New Zealand, this paper interrogates how those engaged in developing and using AI and robotic applications in health and care characterize their future promise, potential and …
Political science (15 works) · Business (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (6 works)