Intermediaries of Globalisation. Practices of Regulation and Actors in the Global Field of Cornea Transplantation

该项目以人类角膜为例，分析了组织移植领域的全球动态，并将有助于理解与人类生物材料使用有关的全球纠缠的形成、实现和调节。与器官捐献不同，组织捐献和器官交换遵循的逻辑略有不同。该项目将重建，角膜移植领域的行为者如何根据具体情况采取行动，他们如何创造和维持代理，以及存在哪些推理模式。我们将进行文件，文献和统计分析，并将其与美国和斯里兰卡的实地工作相结合。这些地区是根据角膜采购、出口、进口和移植数量之间的特定比例选择的，使用的是最不同的方法。第一步，将分析各自的监管背景和统计特点。在第二步中，将绘制出角膜移植领域的各个行为者。在最后一步，将采用定性访谈对各自的立场进行比较。该项目有助于全球化和医学地理学科的最新研究。

The project analyses global dynamics in the field of tissue transplantation, using the example of human cornea, and will contribute to an understanding of the formation, realisation and regulation of global entanglements in relation to the usage of human biological material. In contrast to organ donation, tissue donation and -exchange follow slightly different logics. The project will reconstruct, how actors in the field of cornea transplantation act context-specifically, how they create and maintain agency, and which modes of reasoning exist. We will conduct document-, literature- and statistical analysis and combine them with field work in the USA and Sri Lanka. These regions were chosen based on their specific ratios between the number of cornea procured, exported, imported and transplantated, using a most-different-approach. In a first step, the respective regulatory context and statistical characteristics will be analysed. In a second step, the respective actors in the field of cornea transplantation will be mapped out. In a last step, the respective positions will be compared, using qualitative interviews. The project contributes to recent research on globalisation and to the discipline of medical geography.