"A McLellan book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) notes and index.

Life beyond the limits: inventing the bioeconomy
On pharmaceutical empire: AIDS, security, and exorcism
Preempting emergence: the biological turn in the war on terror
Contortions: tissue engineering and the topological body
Labors of regeneration: stem cells and the embryoid bodies of capital
The unborn born again: neo-imperialism, the evangelical right, and the culture of life

From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bio-economy. From publisher description