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Bioethical governance and basic stem cell science: China and the global biomedicine economy

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  • Brian Salter
  • Ren-Zong Qiu

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The rapid growth of the global biomedicine economy has been matched by an expansion of the governance knowledge required to facilitate its development. As part of that process, and in response to the governance needs generated by cultural conflict, bioethics has emerged as the political means for the creation of a global moral economy where the trading and exchange of values is normalised and legitimated. However, as a novel form of governance, bioethics cannot assume that it has automatic legitimacy within the jurisdiction of states, such as China, who are new entrants to the bioeconomy. Taking the case of basic stem cell science, this paper explores how far bioethics in China has evolved as an epistemic community capable of drawing on global bioethics networks to produce governance knowledge that is both compatible with traditional Chinese values and able to be translated into a legal/bureaucratic form that can be employed in policy agenda setting, formation and implementation. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Brian Salter & Ren-Zong Qiu, 2009. "Bioethical governance and basic stem cell science: China and the global biomedicine economy," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 36(1), pages 47-59, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:36:y:2009:i:1:p:47-59
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    1. Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret & Chekar, Choon Key & Faulkner, Alex & Heitmeyer, Carolyn & Marouda, Marina & Rosemann, Achim & Chaisinthop, Nattaka & Chang, Hung-Chieh (Jessica) & Ely, Adrian & Kato, Mas, 2016. "Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications: An international perspective," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 240-249.

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