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Title:
Can science and technology save China? / edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
vii, 226 pages : illustrations, 23 cm
Subject:
Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Science and state--China.
Technology and state--China.
Other Authors:
Greenhalgh, Susan, editor.
Zhang, Li, 1965 May- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1501747029
9781501747021
1501747037
9781501747038
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1097465486
LCCN:
2019017310
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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