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Can Science and Technology Save China?
Contributor(s): Greenhalgh, Susan (Editor), Zhang, Li (Editor)
ISBN: 1501747037     ISBN-13: 9781501747038
Publisher: Cornell University Press
OUR PRICE:   $29.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
- History | Asia - China
- Political Science | Public Policy - Science & Technology Policy
Dewey: 338.951
LCCN: 2019017310
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
 
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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 life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create practical knowledges and innovations, as well as how ordinary people take them up as they pursue the good life. Editors Greenhalgh and Zhang offer a rare, up-close view of the politics of Chinese science-making, showing how everyday logics, practices, and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping contemporary China. By foregrounding the notion of "governing through science," and the contested role of science and technology as instruments of change, this timely book addresses important questions regarding what counts as science in China, what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.

Contributor Bio(s): Zhang, Li: - Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Strangers in the City.Greenhalgh, Susan: - Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She is the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China, and Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China. She is coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics.