Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bharadwaj, Aditya, 1971-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, c2009.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Glasner, Peter E.

Description

vii, 140 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Genetics and society

Uniform Title

Genetics and society (Series)

Subject

• Embryo Research > ethics
• Embryo Research > legislation & jurisprudence
• Embryonic Stem Cells
• Embryonic stem cells > Cross-cultural studies
• Embryonic stem cells > Research > India
• Ethical Relativism
• India
• Internationality
• Social Change

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-136) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780415396097 (hbk)
• 0415396093 (hbk)
• 9780203891032 (ebk)
• 0203891031 (ebk)

LCCN

^^2008014922