Worlding Oneness

Zhan, Min

doi:10.1215/01642472-1416109

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“…In the DeTox Lab's research, and in my own usage, which follows from observation and an analysis of the lab's epigenetic studies, the environment is a person who always stands in relation to other personal and nonpersonal environments of exposure. This definition of the environment more deeply resonates with what some anthropologists have interpreted as fundamental organizing principles of everyday Chinese life, such as a more relational notion of personhood (Yang 1994) and a more porous understanding of the relationship between the human and the environment (Choy 2011;Tu 2001;Zhan 2011). In the laboratory where I conducted research, these preexisting models of transgenerational, biosocial relationality are newly configured as responses to changing economic, social, and environmental conditions.…”

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“…Moreover, China and East Asia more generally have been long characterized by anthropologists as places that do not think of bodies in isolation (Chen 2003;Kleinman 1981;Lock and Farquhar 2007;Scheper-Hughes and Lock 1987). Instead, there exists a long history of diagnosing and treating the social causations of bodily illness through an understanding of co-constituted human-environments (Tu 2001;Zhan 2011). Relational ideas of personhood like those found in the DeTox Lab's epigenetic research have characterized social scientific models of Chinese life for a long time.…”

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What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China

Lamoreaux

2016

Cult. Anthropol.

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Through an ethnographic portrayal of the research on and treatment of congenital disorders in China, in this article I suggest that epigenetic research has the potential not only to exaggerate maternal blame but also to deindividualize ideas of maternal and parental responsibility. When a pregnant woman and the generations that produced her are understood through epigenetic studies as the environmental contexts of another person, responsibility has the potential to be reimagined as existing in relations and configurations that move beyond individualized understandings of personhood. Moreover, I argue that epigenetic models of development and inheritance at work in toxicological studies in China, and in the postgenomic embrace of complexity more generally, strongly resonate with existing social scientific models of Chinese life. Toxicologists conducting epigenetic research in China today reconfigure preexisting models of transgenerational, biosocial relationality to reassert a sense of social, environmental, and intergenerational connectivity in a moment of increasing individualization and chemical toxicity.

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What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China

Lamoreaux

2016

Cult. Anthropol.

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“…polymers and ceramics 1. Recently, the electroless plated fabrics have received much more attention because of their potential use as the electromagnetic interference (EMI) and antibacterial materials 2,3. The metal coated fabric not only maintains the mechanical properties of the fabric itself, but also endows with the high electrical conductivity, EMI shielding, good adherence stability and corrosive protective performances, cost saving, low energy, inherent selectivity and simplicity of processing 4,5.…”

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“…We have found that the thickness of the metal coating plating on fabric has a great effect on the properties of electrical conductivity and EMI shielding performance in the Ni–P plating process 35 To the best of our knowledge, little work has been reported on the influence of the thickness of metal coating on the properties of Ni–P plated fabric.…”

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Effect of weight percentage gain on properties of electroless Ni–P plating on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fabric

Zhang

2011

Surface Engineering

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In this paper, electroless Ni-P plating on polyethylene terephthalatefabrics (PET) with different weight percentage gains was fabricated in the laboratory. The effects of weight percentage gain on the properties of air permeability, electromagnetic shielding performance, sound absorption, thermal stability and tensile were investigated. The results showed that the exponential relationship between air permeability and weight percentage gain could be obtained. Similarly, the linear relationship between fabric thickness and weight percentage gain could be obtained. As the weight percentage gain increased, the shielding effectiveness increased, whereas the surface resistance decreased at first, and then reached to a certain level. When the distance of air gap behind fabric and the frequency of sound wave were given, the sound absorption coefficient increased with increasing weight percentage gain at first, reached a maximum value at the weight percentage gain of 90% and then decreased beyond 90%. The tensile properties of the electroless Ni-P plated polyethylene terephthalate fabric were greatly influenced by the thickness of the coated metal. The linear relationship between tensile strain and Young's modulus existed.

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Cosmic Experiments: Remaking Materialism and Daoist Ethic “Outside of the Establishment”

Zhan

2016

Medical Anthropology

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In this article, I discuss recent experiments in 'classical' (gudian) Chinese medicine. As the marketization and privatization of health care deepens and enters uncharted territories in China, a cohort of young practitioners and entrepreneurs have begun their quest for the 'primordial spirit' of traditional Chinese medicine by setting up their own businesses where they engage in clinical, pedagogical, and entrepreneurial practices outside of state-run institutions. I argue that these explorations in classical Chinese medicine, which focus on classical texts and Daoist analytics, do not aim to restore spirituality to the scientized and secularized theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Nor are they symptomatic of withdrawals from the modern world. Rather, these 'cosmic experiments' need to be understood in relation to dialectical and historical materialisms as modes of knowledge production and political alliance. In challenging the status of materialist theory and the process of theorization in traditional Chinese medicine and postsocialist life more broadly speaking, advocates of classical Chinese medicine imagine nondialectical materialisms as immanent ways of thinking, doing, and being in the world.

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Worlding Oneness

Cited by 35 publications

References 4 publications

What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China

What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China

Effect of weight percentage gain on properties of electroless Ni–P plating on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fabric

Cosmic Experiments: Remaking Materialism and Daoist Ethic “Outside of the Establishment”

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