Editor(s): Chen, Nancy N.; Sharp, Lesley A. Series: Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNR; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2014. first. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
Publisher: SAR Press
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1938645421
ISBN 13: 9781938645426
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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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