Biomedical Odysseys (eBook)

Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China

Priscilla Song (Autor)

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2017
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8528-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Priscilla Song is assistant professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. Biomedical Odysseys looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating on the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. Priscilla Song shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy.Bringing together a decade of ethnographic research in hospital wards, laboratories, and online patient discussion forums, Song opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. She illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation.Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, Biomedical Odysseys is the first book to map the transnational life of fetal cell therapies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones. 9 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Neurochirurgie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Abortion • acupuncture • ALS • American Spinal Injury Association • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis • Arthur Kleinman • Bioethics • Biology • biomediation • biomedical practice • biomedical research protocols • Biomedical Science • biomedicine • Biotechnology • Blog • CareCure • Career • caregiver • China • Chinese clinicians • Chinese Medicine • Chinese neurosurgeons • chronic condition • chronicity • clinical experimentation • clinical research • clinical trial • Clinician • Complication (medicine) • credibility • cybersociality • defecation • Deng Xiaoping • Disability • Disease • doctorate • Dr. Huang Hongyun • Effectiveness • efficacy • Entrepreneurship • Expatriate • experimental medicine • experimental medicines • Experimental Surgery • Experimental Therapy • experimental treatment • fetal cell transplantation • Fetus • Follow-up • foreign patients • Harvard University • Health Care • Health Care Reform • Health facility • health professional • Health system • Health Technology • Hope • Hospital • hospital bed • Huang Hongyun • Illness • Infrastructure • institutional practice • Internal Medicine • local anesthesia • Major trauma • market socialism • medical entrepreneurialism • medical entrepreneurs • Medical Ethics • medical practice • Medical Research • medical school • Medical state • Medical Tourism • medicine in china • Motor neuron • narrative • Neurodegeneration • neurodegenerative condition • neurodegenerative disorders • Neuroglia • Neurological disorder • Neurology • Neuroscience • neuroscientist • neurosurgeon • neurosurgery • nursing • olfactory bulb • olfactory ensheathing cells • olfactory ensheathing glia • Online Community • online discussion forum • Operating theater • paralysis • paraplegia • patient activism • Pharmaceutical Industry • physical therapy • Physician • Postdoctoral researcher • Pregnancy • private hospital • Privatization • Public hospital • Qingdao • quackery • Regenerative medicine • regimen • Sanatorium • Scientific journal • Scientist • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics • spinal cord • spinal cord injuries • spinal cord injury • Spinal cord injury research • Stem Cell • Stem-cell therapy • Subjectivity • Suggestion • surgeon • Surgery • Surgical intervention • Symptom • Technology • technonationalism • Technoscience • terminal illness • Testimonial • Tetraplegia • Traditional Chinese Medicine • Transplantation • Umbilical Cord • Virtual community • Website • Work unit
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8528-0 / 1400885280
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8528-2 / 9781400885282