Biocapital The Constitution of Postgenomic Life

Name: Biocapital The Constitution of Postgenomic Life
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ISBN: 9780822337201

ISBN-10: 0822337207

ISBN-13: 9780822337201

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Kaushik Sunder Rajan

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"Biocapital" is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge. Sunder Rajan conducted fieldwork in biotechnology labs and in small start-up companies in the United States (mostly in the San Francisco Bay area) and India (mainly in New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bombay) over a five-year period spanning 1999 to 2004. He draws on his research with scientists, entrepreneurs,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Capitalisms and Biotechnologies



Circulations



Exchange and Value: Contradictions in Market Logic in American and Indian Genome Enterprises



Life and Debt: Global and Local Political Ecologies of Biocapital



Articulations



Vision and Hype: The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures



Promise and Fetish: Genomic Facts and Personalized Medicine, or Life Is a Business Plan



Salvation and Nation: Underlying Belief Structures of Biocapital



Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Story of an E-learning Company


Coda: Surplus and Symptom


Notes


References


Index