Local Cells, Global Science: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in by Aditya Bharadwaj

By Aditya Bharadwaj

One of many first experiences of a thrilling new improvement in worldwide biotechnology, this innovative textual content examines the level of the transnational hobbies of tissues, stem cells, and services, within the constructing governance framework of India. Documenting the influence of neighborhood and international governance frames at the daily behavior of analysis, this groundbreaking e-book strains the adventure of ‘spare’ human embryos in IVF clinics to private and non-private laboratories engaged in separating stem cells for power healing program. The dialogue additionally examines the gender measurement as a possible web site for exploitation within the sourcing of embryonic and different biogenic fabrics, and means that an ethical economic climate has built within which the moral values of the worldwide 'North' help and inspire the donation of plentiful and ethically ‘neutral’ embryos by means of the 'South'. This distinct exploration is grounded in an empirical, multi-sited ethnographic research that takes a completely comparative research of the moral, non secular and social concerns in Europe, the U.S., and organ donations already favourite in India. during this theoretically-sensitive research, the authors use the assets of social anthropology and the social sciences in an cutting edge textual content in order to entice postgraduates and pros within the components of STS experiences, genetics, bioethics, and anthropology.

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Big global pharma names, such as Novo Nordisk, Aventis, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, have begun clinical drug trials in various Indian cities (Rediff, 2004). For the first time, the Indian state is attempting to generate biovalue by reinvesting its surplus of viable citizens in the liberalized and booming economy. The fact that this (re)investment of surplus citizens is seen as morally unproblematic validates the process. The trials are reportedly conducted by fastidiously keeping to the twin (neo-liberal) legitimating mantras of ‘informed consent’ and ‘ethical review’.

Around the world, only 64 cell lines could meet this criterion and, of these, ten existed in India. Three lines were held by the state-owned National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, and a further seven were under development at the private research laboratory of Reliance Life Sciences in Mumbai (see Chapter 3). This private–public sector symbiosis, however, is not specific to the development of biotechnology in India. As argued elsewhere, despite its avowed commitment to providing health care and planning, the post-independence Indian state did not curtail private health provision and, under the shelter of a mixed economy model, the private and public sectors have managed to establish a protracted symbiotic coexistence (Bharadwaj, 2001).

As we shall see later, this assumption is not only problematic but is, in the dis-located world of biotech invention and market-driven competition, an inevitable corollary of its status. A dis-location is an ethical, moral, geo-political and economic digression from an imagined normative global order. It is a problematic spatiality, and matter out of place (Douglas, 2005). It is, by virtue of its liminality, a site of opportunity as well as of danger (van Gennep, 1960; Turner, 1967). It is a departure from a comforting status quo, and arrival into the uncertainty of an upheaval.

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