Can science and technology save China? /

Can science and technology save China? / edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang. - 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : governing through science : the anthropology of science and technology in contemporary China / Susan Greenhalgh -- Numbers and the assembling of a community mental health infrastructure in post-socialist China / Zhiying Ma -- Embracing psychological science for the good life? / Li Zhang -- Negotiating evidence and efficacy in experimental medicine / Priscilla Song -- Divergent trust and dissonant truths in public health science / Katherine Mason -- China's eco-dream and the making of invisibilities in rural-environmental research / Elizabeth Lord -- The good scientist and the good multinational : managing the ethics of industry-funded science / Susan Greenhalgh -- The black soldier fly : an indigenous innovation for waste management in Guangzhou / Amy Zhang -- Unmasking a gendered materialism : air filtration, cigarettes, and domestic discord in urban China / Matthew Kohrman

"This study of the intimate connections between science and society in China shows that science and technology, far from saving China, as the country's leaders promise, are producing unanticipated, often deeply disturbing effects"--

9781501747045 (electronic book) 1501747045 (electronic book) 9781501747052 (electronic book) 1501747053 (electronic book) (hardcover)

22573/ctvq12qms JSTOR

2019018070


Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Science and state--China.
Technology and state--China.
Sciences--Aspect social--Chine.
Politique scientifique et technique--Chine.
HISTORY--Asia--China.
Science and state.
Science--Social aspects.
Technology and state.
Technology--Social aspects.


China.


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