Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life

by Aihwa Ong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362643
• ISBN13: 9780822362647
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"