Life as surplus : biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era /
Melinda Cooper.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
- ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- In vivo / The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science .
- In vivo (Seattle, Washington) .
"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
Biotechnology--Political aspects--United States. Biotecnología --Aspectos políticos --Estados Unidos Life sciences--Political aspects--United States. Ciencias de la vida --Aspectos políticos --Estados Unidos Capitalism--Health aspects--United States. Capitalismo--Aspectos sociales --Estados Unidos