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vitamin pioneer and Riken researcher Suzuki Umetarō (who would later become the first director of the Continental Science Institute),

The uneasiness surrounding the topic of science in fact characterizes the modernity of Imperial Japan (1868–1945),

Given, as I will argue later in the book, that all nations originate in and remain deeply embedded in global norms and institutions, this is a welcome recognition of the necessity of aligning the global and circulatory conditions of national welfare.

Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.

Up until very recently, government-funded research has been conducted almost exclusively by, on, and for white men. It was only in 1993 that Congress passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, a law requiring that women and minorities be included in clinical trials funded by the federal government’s National Institutes of Health.

A policy,

In reducing it to a possession, citizenship-as-status taints the essence of Citizenship. This in turn creates the space for abuse of fundamental human rights and dignities, dehumanising those who do not have it.

While the period of this study covers the last hundred years or so, I range back in time to better understand these responses in our present moment that is characterized by three global changes: (1) the rise of non-Western powers; (2) the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence (e.g., Marxism or religion); and (3) the looming crisis of plane