Can Science and Technology Save China? /

Can Science and Technology Save China? / / ed. by Li Zhang, Susan Greenhalgh.

Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects.Focusing on critical domains of daily lif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Greenhalgh, Susan,
Kohrman, Matthew,
Lord, Elizabeth,
Ma, Zhiying,
Mason, Katherine A.,
Song, Priscilla,
Zhan, Mei,
Zhang, Amy,
Zhang, Li,
HerausgeberIn:
Greenhalgh, Susan,
Zhang, Li,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Governing through Science: The Anthropology of Science and Technology in Contemporary China
  • 1. Numbers and the Assembling of a Community Mental Health Infrastructure in Postsocialist China
  • 2. Embracing Psychological Science for the “Good Life”?
  • 3. Negotiating Evidence and Efficacy in Experimental Medicine
  • 4. Divergent Trust and Dissonant Truths in Public Health Science
  • 5. China’s Eco-Dream and the Making of Invisibilities in Rural-Environmental Research
  • 6. The Good Scientist and the Good Multinational: Managing the Ethics of Industry-Funded Health Science
  • 7. The Black Soldier Fly: An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou
  • 8. Unmasking a Gendered Materialism: Air Filtration, Cigarettes, and Domestic Discord in Urban China
  • Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index

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