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Biobanking in transnational perspective

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:06 authored by Margaret Sleeboom-FaulknerMargaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Biobanking almost always involves international collaboration and the traffic of knowledge, data and materials between countries and regions. Nevertheless, problems related to tissue sampling and the maintenance of biobanks in Asia and Europe are usually explained in static terms of cultural, economic, historical and political dichotomies between the West and China, neo-liberalism and socialism, modern and traditional. A broader perspective shows that, when defined in such static opposites, the transnational dynamics of biobanks are hard to understand. But none of these contrasts by themselves are sufficient to understand the particular circumstances of biobanking issues that occur in specific locations. Examples from India, Indonesia, Japan and China show that only by situating the specific local situation of biobanks in their global contexts can we appreciate the transactional spaces and transnational traffic involved in biobanking.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Publisher

Bionet

Page range

28-32

Pages

324.0

Book title

Ethical governance of biological and biomedical research: Chinese-European co-operation (Second edition)

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  • Anthropology Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Ole Döring

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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