Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences - A Call for Decolonising Global Governance

This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

About the author

Joy Y. Zhang is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent
Saheli Datta Burton is a Research Fellow at University College London

Summary

This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

Product details

• Authors: Saheli Datta Burton, Joy Y Zhang, Joy Y. Zhang, Joy Y. Datta Burton Zhang, Zhang Joy Y.
• Assisted by: Des Fitzgerald (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781526159526
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5952-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Inscriptions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Life sciences: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy