Sunder Rajan Biocapital

The Constitution of Postgenomic Life
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8800-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

An ethnography about the work of genome scientists, entrepreneurs, and policy makers in biotech drug development in the United States and India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Capitalisms and Biotechnologies 1

Part I. Circulations

1. Exchange and Value: Contradictions in Market Logic in American and Indian Genome Enterprises 39

2. Life and Debt: Global and Local Political Ecologies of Biocapital 77

Part II. Articulations

3. Vision and Hype: The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures 107

4. Promise and Fetish: Genomic Facts and Personalized Medicine, or Life Is a Business Plan 138

5. Salvation and Nation: Underlying Belief Structures of Biocapital 182

6. Entrepeneurs and Start-Ups: The Story of an E-learning Company 234

Coda: Surplus and Symptom 277

Notes 289

References 315

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of BIOCAPITAL: THE CONSTITUTION OF POSTGENOMIC LIFE (2006).