Life as surplus
Subtitle: biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era
By: Melinda Cooper.
Series: In vivo; In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780295987910
Subjects: Biotechnology -- Political aspects -- United States; Life sciences -- Political aspects -- United States; Capitalism -- Health aspects -- United States; Biological Sciences; Capitalism; Politics
Notes: "A McLellan book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Life beyond the limits: inventing the bioeconomy; title: On pharmaceutical empire: AIDS, security, and exorcism; title: Preempting emergence: the biological turn in the war on terror; title: Contortions: tissue engineering and the topological body; title: Labors of regeneration: stem cells and the embryoid bodies of capital; title: The unborn born again: neo-imperialism, the evangelical right, and the culture of life.