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Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Edited by Kaushik Sunder Rajan
"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate all co-evolve as life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances are differentially capitalized. These essays convince us that Lively Capital, is, indeed, a living social form, and they provide a stunningly provocative read!" Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavour which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally." Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Working at the intersection of science and technology studies and social and cultural anthropology, 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. They address matters such as genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, and patient advocacy as they are playing out around the world, in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences: its 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, or 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, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner
Duke University Press
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