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Fungible Life

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Fungible Life

By Aihwa Ong

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About the book

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 Chines...Show more

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9780822362647

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Fungible Life

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Paperback

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