Life as surplus [[electronic resource] ] : biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era / / Melinda Cooper

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791558603321
• Autore: Cooper Melinda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-295-99031-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Collana: In vivo
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetti: Biotechnology - Political aspects - United States; Life sciences - Political aspects - United States; Capitalism - Health aspects - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A McLellan book"--t.p.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.