Fungible Life
Experiment in the Asian City of Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2436068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aihwa Ong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Fungible Life (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780822373643 |
| OpenAlex | W2553683507 |
| Open Library | OL29749058M |
| ISBN | 9780822373643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
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 ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research. Their differentiation between Chinese, Indian, and Malay DNA makes fungible Singapore's ethnic-stratified databases that come to "represent" majority populations in Asia. By deploying genomic science as a public good, researchers reconfigure the relationships between objects, peoples, and spaces, thus rendering "Asia" itself as a shifting entity. In Ong's analysis, Asia emerges as a richly layered mode of entanglements, where the population's genetic pasts, anxieties and hopes, shared genetic weaknesses, and embattled genetic futures intersect. Furthermore, her illustration of the contrasting methods and goals of the Biopolis biomedical center in Singapore and BGI Genomics in China raises questions about the future direction of cosmopolitan science in Asia and beyond
China · Environmental ethics · Futures contract · Genealogy · Geography · Malay · Political science · Population · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Demography · Environmental Science · History · Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions · Anthropologische Medizin · Anthropology · asia · Biomedizin · Biopolis (Singapore) · Biotechnologie · Biotechnology · Business & Economics · Cultural · Ethnizität · Genanalyse · General · Genomik · Gesundheitspolitik · Industries · Medical sciences · Moral and ethical aspects · Parks · Political aspects · Recherche · Research · Research parks · Sciences de la santé · Social Science · Technopoles · Vorsorgeuntersuchung
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Policy assemblages and human devices
Inscrutable futures
An imagined future community
La science fait de la résistance
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |