biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era Cooper, Melinda creator text bibliography dcu Seattle University of Washington Press c2008 2008 monographic eng

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ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm. 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 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 Melinda Cooper. "A McLellan book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) notes and index. n-us--- 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 TP 248.2 C777l 2008 303.48/3 9780295987910 (pbk. : alk. paper) 029598791X (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007038562 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007038562.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007038562.html DNLM/DLC 070918 20250804103727.0 105032 eng