Melinda E Cooper

Life as Surplus

Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. Melinda Cooper is a research fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780295987910
• ISBN-10: 029598791X
• Artikelnr.: 23426787

Autorenporträt

Melinda E. Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Life Beyond the Limits: Inventing the Bioeconomy
2. On Pharmaceutical Empire: AIDS, Security, and Exorcism
3. Preempting Emergence: The Biological Turn in the War on Terror
Intermezzo
4. Contortions: Tissue Engineering and the Topological Body
5. Labors of Regeneration: Stem Cells and the Embryoid Bodies of Capital
6. The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right, and the
Culture of Life
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index