The Silenced Technology—the Beauty and Sorrow of Reassembled CarsEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Tập 3 - Trang 91-131 - 2009
Chung-hsi Lin
Reassembled cars can be seen everywhere in Taiwan. In the past few decades, the government has repeatedly clamped down on them. It has also taken measures such as negative persuasion, technical requirements, alienation, phaseout, and developed standard agricultural vehicles to eradicate reassembled cars. But they are able to take advantage of the social context and rationalize their existence. Rea...... hiện toàn bộ
Public Participation in Science and Technology: Performing and Obscuring a Political–Conceptual Category MistakeEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Tập 1 - Trang 99-110 - 2007
Brian Wynne
In this paper, I attempt to explain how existing work in the science and technology studies (STS) sub-field of public engagement with, or participation in, public issues involving science and technology, has performed a serious category mistake in allowing itself to be called ‘public participation in science’ research. This requires us to reflect more systematically upon how our assumed objects, h...... hiện toàn bộ
Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru—The First Step for EmpoweringEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Tập 2 - Trang 381-400 - 2009
Azumi Tsuge
Although there is some awareness of how women in infertility treatment have suffered physically and psychologically, it is a little known fact that there is a limit to the “cures” that can be achieved even with assisted reproductive technologies. Here, I describe how the existence of ART affects women’s decision making about their lives. Through life histories of women who underwent infertility tr...... hiện toàn bộ
China, Globalisation and Health Biotechnology Innovation: Venture Capital and the Adaptive StateEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Tập 3 - Trang 401-420 - 2009
Brian Salter
This paper explores the changing approach of the Chinese state to health biotechnology innovation and, in particular, the position of venture capital within that process. How has the Chinese state dealt with the opportunities and threats posed by globalisation in this field, what status has it attached to the role of venture capital in innovation and what are the implications of these actions for ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Medicine Cabinet: Korean Medicine Under DisputeEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Tập 4 - Trang 367-382 - 2010
Eun Jeong Ma
This is a historical and ethnographic account of the transformation of Korean medical institutions in the context of national identity building. Focusing on the traditional medicine cabinet, the author discusses intraprofessional and interprofessional conflicts between Korean Oriental medicine and Western medicine. During the period under study, practitioners of Korean medicine institutionalized t...... hiện toàn bộ