Lively capital : biotechnologies, ethics, and governance in global markets
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Lively capital : biotechnologies, ethics, and governance in global markets
(Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices)
Duke University Press, 2012
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- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects-the emotions and desires-involved when technologies and research impinge on experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability, citizenship, accumulation, and dispossession. At stake in the commodification of the life sciences are opportunities to intervene in and adjudicate matters of health, life, and death.Contributors. Timothy Choy, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 1
Part I. Encountering Value
1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The_BioMarx_Experiment / Joseph Dumit 45
2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital / Donna J. Haraway 93
3. Air's Substantiations / Timothy Choy 121
Part II. Property and Dispossession
4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature / Sheila Jasanoff 155
5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties / Elta Smith 184
6. Marx in New Zealand / Travis Tanner 211
7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson 228
Part III. Global Knowledge Formations
8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA / Andrew Lakoff 251
9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore / Wen-Hau Kuo 279
10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism / Kim Fortun 306
Part IV. Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms of Life
11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising / Mike Fortun 329
12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community / Chloe Silverman 354
13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research / Michael M. J. Fischer 385
Epilogue: Threads and Articulations / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 437
Bibliography 453
About the Contributors 491
Index 495
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