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In this talk, I wish to do three things. First, I will provide an overview of science studies and anthropology of science, in order to provide some context about a field of research that studies contemporary science and scientists in action through ethnographic methods of participant observation. Second, I will describe my own research trajectory, involving ethnographic projects on different aspects of life sciences and biomedicine in India and the United States over the past decade. And finally, I will briefly describe my current research project, which follows the establishment of the new Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in Faridabad, in order to provide an empirical example of the sort of work referenced in the first two parts of the talk. In the process, I hope both to tell stories of emergent science and technology institutions in India, and to suggest how such stories might be conceptualized in terms of the global political economic contexts within which they are situated, and which they help shape.
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