02962cam a22004694a 4500 105032 BJBSDDR 20250804103727.0 ta 070918s2008 dcu b s001 0 eng 2007038562 9780295987910 (pbk. : alk. paper) 029598791X (pbk. : alk. paper) 15015775 (OCoLC)ocn173469755 (OCoLC)173469755 DNLM/DLC DLC NLM YDXCP C#P BAKER DLC eng eng pcc n-us--- TP 248.2 C777l 2008 303.48/3 Cooper, Melinda 42923 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 "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 43911 Life sciences Political aspects United States. Ciencias de la vida Aspectos políticos Estados Unidos 43912 Capitalism Health aspects United States. Capitalismo Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos 1779 In vivo (Seattle, Washington) 43910 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007038562.html lcc BK JPR 104505 104505 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-11 0 TP 248.2 C777l 2008 00000097851 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 BK