Life as surplus : biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era / Melinda Cooper.

  • Cooper, Melinda.
Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Notes

"A McLellan book."

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.

Contents

Life beyond the limits: inventing the bioeconomy -- On pharmaceutical empire: AIDS, security, and exorcism -- Preempting emergence: the biological turn in the war on terror -- Contortions: tissue engineering and the topological body -- Labors of regeneration: stem cells and the embryoid bodies of capital -- The unborn born again: neo-imperialism, the evangelical right, and the culture of life.

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    Medical Collection
    TP248.2 2008C67l
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  • 9780295987910
  • 029598791X