[PDF] The Elephant And The Dragon In Contemporary Life Sciences eBook

Author : Joy Y. Zhang
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1526159511

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This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in the two countries’ rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation.

Author : Joy Y. Zhang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526182289

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This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

Author : Gail Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526165767

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Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate. This book demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to understanding what is created through animal procedures – including constitutional forms of research governance, different institutional cultures of care, the professional careers of scientists and veterinarians, collaborations with patients and publics, and research animals, specially bred for experiments or surplus to requirements. Developing the idea of the animal research nexus, this book explores how connections and disconnections are made between these different elements, how these have reshaped each other historically, and how they configure the current practice and policy of UK animal research.

Author : Karen Throsby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526151537

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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ‘war on obesity’ levelled at ‘unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the ‘problem’ of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonization of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

Author : Curran, Dean
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788972260

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This unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of environmental, financial, social, urban, economic, and digital risks on inequalities, at both national and global levels.

Author : Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131716041X

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Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume’s chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science categories. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, legal, policy and ethical implications of science and technology and the life sciences.

Author : Robyn Meredith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393331938

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Meredith offers a compelling look at the major changes in store as America faces increasing competition from India and China--two emerging economic giants.

Author : Francis Klingender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0429557752

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Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.

Author : Joy Y. Zhang
Publisher : Inscriptions
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781526159526

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This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.