Biosecurity has ballooned into an increasingly mundane aspect of human experience, serving as a catchall for the detection, surveillance, containment, and deflection of everything from epidemics and natural disasters to resource scarcities and political insurgencies.

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Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at University of California Santa Cruz. A medical anthropologist, she is the author of Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China (Columbia 2003) and Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia 2009). She is also co-editor of Asian Biotechnology: Ethics and Communities of Fate (with Aihwa Ong, 2010); Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformation (with Helene Moglen, 2006); and China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture (with Constance Clark, Suzanne Gottschang, & Lyn Jeffery, 2001).

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