Biocapital the constitution of postgenomic life

Rajan, Kaushik Sunder 1974-

Biocapital the constitution of postgenomic life - Durham Duke University Press 2006 - xi,343p. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.

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.

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Biotechnology industries.
Genomics--Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Genomics--economics.
Genomics--history.
Biotechnology--history.
Drug Industry--history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.

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