Lively Capital

Lively Capital

Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets

  • Autor: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Colección: Experimental Futures
  • ISBN: 9780822348207
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822393306
  • Lugar de publicación:  Durham , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2012
  • Mes: Abril
  • Páginas: 528
  • DDC: 660.6
  • Idioma: Ingles
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

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital - Kaushik Sunder Rajan
  • Part I: Encountering Value
    • 1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The BioMarx Experiment - Joseph Dumit
    • 2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital - Donna J. Haraway
    • 3. Air’s Substantiations - Timothy Choy
  • Part II: Property and Dispossession
    • 4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature - Sheila Jasanoff
    • 5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties - Elta Smith
    • 6. Marx in New Zealand - Travis Tanner
    • 7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria - Kristin Peterson
  • Part III: Global Knowledge Formations
    • 8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA - Andrew Lakoff
    • 9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore - Wen-Hua Kuo
    • 10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism - Kim Fortun
  • Part IV: Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms oF Life
    • 11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising - Mike Fortun
    • 12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community - Chloe Silverman
    • 13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research - Michael M. J. Fischer
  • Epilogue: Threads and Articulations - Kaushik Sunder Rajan
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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