EASTS New issue: Body and Enhancement Technology
The new EASTS issue 10.1 “Body and Enhancement Technology”, edited by Eunjeong Ma, has just been published. The papers in this issue are written by Jaehwan Hyun, Eduardo Zachary Albrecht, So Yeon Leem, and Masato Fukushima.
The paper “Embodying Progress: Aesthetic Surgery and Socioeconomic Change in South Korea” by Eduardo Zachary Albrecht is now freely available for six months.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society (STS). Examining issues such as human embryonic stem-cell research, family and reproductive technologies, and the globalization of Chinese medicine, the journal publishes research on how society and culture in East Asia interact with science, technology, and medicine. EASTS serves as a gathering place to facilitate the growing efforts of STS networks from Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe to foster an internationally open and inclusive community.
The journal is composed of research articles, research notes, critical reviews, and book reviews.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume 10 Number 1 March 2016
SPECIAL ISSUE
Body and Enhancement Technology
Guest Editor: Eunjeong Ma
Introduction
Body and Enhancement Technology
Eunjeong Ma
Articles
Asians—A Doping-Friendly Race? Anti-Doping Research and Popular Discourse on Race in the Post-Genomic Era
Jaehwan Hyun
Embodying Progress: Aesthetic Surgery and Socioeconomic Change in South Korea
Eduardo Zachary Albrecht
The Dubious Enhancement: Making South Korea a Plastic Surgery Nation
So Yeon Leem
Blade Runner and Memory Devices: Reconsidering the Interrelations between the Body, Technology, and Enhancement
Masato Fukushima
BOOK REVIEWS
Ann Jannetta, The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan
Regina Huebner
Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, and Sienna R. Craig, eds., Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Inger K. Vasstveit
Martin Saxer, Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Geoffrey Samuel
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China’s Modernity
Ruth Rogaski