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Biocapital : the constitution of postgenomic life / Kaushik Su nder Rajan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.Description: xi, 343 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0822337207 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780822337201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.476151  23
Contents:
Introduction : capitalisms and biotechnologies -- Circulations -- Ex change and value : contradictions in market logic in American and India n genome enterprises -- Life and debt : global and local political ecol ogies of biocapital -- Articulations -- Vision and hype : the conjurati on of promissory biocapitalist futures -- Promise and fetish : genomic facts and personalized medicine, or life is a business plan -- Salvatio n and nation : underlying belief structures of biocapital -- Entreprene urs and start-ups : the story of an e-learning company -- Coda : surplu s and symptom.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.

Introduction : capitalisms and biotechnologies -- Circulations -- Ex change and value : contradictions in market logic in American and India n genome enterprises -- Life and debt : global and local political ecol ogies of biocapital -- Articulations -- Vision and hype : the conjurati on of promissory biocapitalist futures -- Promise and fetish : genomic facts and personalized medicine, or life is a business plan -- Salvatio n and nation : underlying belief structures of biocapital -- Entreprene urs and start-ups : the story of an e-learning company -- Coda : surplu s and symptom.

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