Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on the period from 1970s onwards, this is a study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States. It demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political force and an economic policy.
Trade Review"Melinda Cooper's forceful Life as Surplus is a political economy of the exploitation of life in the biotech era that exposes the modes of re/production attuned to late twentieth-century neoliberal capitalism..Cooper's brilliant and inventive mapping of prevailing contemporary biopolitical imaginaries is precious."
* Biosocieties *
"A fascinating study of speculative impulses that serve as the foundation of increasingly commercialized life sciences."
* Book News *
"Life as Surplus is interesting, and examines some of the fundamentals of science practice. . .Well written, a nd well documented. Useful for professionals and for academic coursework on science and society. Recommended."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Life Beyond the Limits: Inventing the Bioeconomy
2. On Pharmaceutical Empire: AIDS, Security, and Exorcism
3. Preempting Emergence: The Biological Turn in the War on Terror
Intermezzo
4. Contortions: Tissue Engineering and the Topological Body
5. Labors of Regeneration: Stem Cells and the Embryoid Bodies of Capital
6. The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right, and the Culture of Life
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
