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Biocapital : the constitution of postgenomic life /
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 gen...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.