Biocapital,9780822337089

Biocapital

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ISBN13: 9780822337089
ISBN10: 0822337088
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-05-30
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"Reading Kaushik Sunder Rajan's "Biocapital "fills me with the same intellectual and personal excitement I felt reading Marx's "Capital "and Foucault's "History of Sexuality "for the first time. "Biocapital "gives a passionate, thoroughly argued road map to dense and consequential worlds that I already inhabit, but have not known how to describe with the vividness and acumen required. Sunder Rajan integrates and explores in depth what many others only promise; i.e., the coproductions of meanings, values, and bodies in emerging regimes of biocapital. In the course of shaping ethnographic and theoretical inquiry into what he calls 'lively capital, ' Sunder Rajan gives his readers lively value in every sense."--Donna Haraway, author of "Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan(c)_Meets_OncoMouse(TM)"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Capitalisms and Biotechnologies 1(38)
Part I. Circulations
1. Exchange and Value: Contradictions in Market Logic in American and Indian Genome Enterprises
39(38)
2. Life and Debt: Global and Local Political Ecologies of Biocapital
77(30)
Part II. Articulations
3. Vision and Hype: The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures
107(31)
4. Promise and Fetish: Genomic Facts and Personalized Medicine, or Life Is a Business Plan
138(44)
5. Salvation and Nation: Underlying Belief Structures of Biocapital
182(52)
6. Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Story of an E-learning Company
234(43)
Coda: Surplus and Symptom 277(12)
Notes 289(26)
References 315(12)
Index 327

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