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Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets

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Description for Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets Paperback. This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with new forms of research in the life sciences. Editor(s): Sunder Rajan, Kaushik. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 511 pages, 16 illustrations, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JHM; PSAD; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 28. Weight in Grams: 744. Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets. Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices. 512 pages, 16 illustrations, 1 figure. Editor(s): Sunder Rajan, Kaushik. A collection of anthropology of science essays that explores various forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with these forms of research. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; PSAD; TCB. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 28. Weight: 736.
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, 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. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their 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, and 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, Sheila Jasanoff, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
Experimental Futures
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348313
SKU
V9780822348313
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About Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Ed.)
Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
“Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor 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 a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and 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 "The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"—Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America “In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies.”
Brett Edwards
BioScience
“Lively Capital is a challenging, fiercely analytical, and ambitious collection of thirteen essays, tied together by an excellent introduction and epilogue by the editor, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. . . . It is rare to find an edited volume that covers so many diverse and seemingly disparate topics and yet demonstrates such symmetry between its individual contributions.” 
Todd Myers
Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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