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Who is included or excluded from the category of the West seems obvious
The Guardian article quotes Stephen Minger and Alison Murdoch, two university-based British scientists, Simon Best of the UK Biotechnology Association, and an editorial of the British Medical Journal to express its concerns not just in relation to this particular clinic, but to the wider practice of overseas stem cell therapy “stretching from Mexico to China. ” The particular clinic, which is the focus of the article, becomes a metonym for the Global South and the non-West (“stretching from Mexico to China”)
Discursive situating of this clinic in the Global South/non-West is further reinforced in The Guardian article in its short profile of the Director of this particular clinic, Geeta Shroff, that states: “Hanging from her office walls are Indian medical diplomas, training certificates from Asian research institutes, and a picture of her with India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh, who is a friend of the family.”
Summary
Who is included or excluded from the category of the West seems obvious. The Guardian article quotes Stephen Minger and Alison Murdoch, two university-based British scientists, Simon Best of the UK Biotechnology Association, and an editorial of the British Medical Journal to express its concerns not just in relation to this particular clinic, but to the wider practice of overseas stem cell therapy “stretching from Mexico to China. ” The particular clinic, which is the focus of the article, becomes a metonym for the Global South and the non-West (“stretching from Mexico to China”). I aim to contribute to the concerns raised in this special issue and postcolonial science studies’ engagement with binaries and hybrids by analyzing discursive emplotment of West-centric binaries in relation to a fast growing sector of global health, namely overseas stem cell therapy.
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