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Local cells, global science : the rise of embryonic stem cell research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj and Peter Glasner.

Title
  1. Local cells, global science : the rise of embryonic stem cell research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj and Peter Glasner.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, c2009.
Author
  1. Bharadwaj, Aditya, 1971-

Details

Additional authors
  1. Glasner, Peter E.
Description
  1. vii, 140 p.; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Genetics and society
Uniform title
  1. Genetics and society (Series)
Subject
  1. Embryo Research > ethics
  2. Embryo Research > legislation & jurisprudence
  3. Embryonic Stem Cells
  4. Embryonic stem cells > Cross-cultural studies
  5. Embryonic stem cells > Research > India
  6. Ethical Relativism
  7. India
  8. Internationality
  9. Social Change
Genre/Form
  1. Cross-cultural studies
  2. Cross-cultural studies.
Contents
  1. The local, global and contextual : an introduction -- Dis-locations : local cultures of cells, global transactions in science -- Biosociality to bio-crossings : encounters with embryonic stem cells in India -- Sacrificial gifts : infertile citizens and the moral economy of embryos -- Miraculous stem cells : the liminal third space and media rhetoric -- One ethic fits all? : complexities in cross-cultural standardization, bioethics and regulatory protocols.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-136) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain