TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Melinda
TI  - Life as surplus: biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era 
T2  - In vivo /  The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
SN  - 9780295987910 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - TP 248.2 C777l 2008
U1  - 303.48/3 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Biotecnología
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Ciencias de la vida
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Capitalismo
KW  - Aspectos sociales
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007038562.html
ER  -