Biocapital : the constitution of postgenomic life - Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- (Durham : Duke University Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.
Keywords: Biotechnology industries; Genomics -- Economic aspects; Pharmaceutical industry; Genomics -- history; Drug Industry -- history