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_erda
082 0 0 _a338.476151 SUN
_223
_b012204
100 1 _aSunder Rajan, Kaushik,
_d1974-
245 1 0 _aBiocapital :
_bthe constitution of postgenomic life /
_cKaushik Sunder Rajan.
264 1 _aDurham :
_bDuke University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axi, 343 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : capitalisms and biotechnologies -- Circulations -- Exchange and value : contradictions in market logic in American and Indian genome enterprises -- Life and debt : global and local political ecologies of biocapital -- Articulations -- Vision and hype : the conjuration of promissory biocapitalist futures -- Promise and fetish : genomic facts and personalized medicine, or life is a business plan -- Salvation and nation : underlying belief structures of biocapital -- Entrepreneurs and start-ups : the story of an e-learning company -- Coda : surplus and symptom.
520 _aAn argument that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge
650 0 _aBiotechnology industries.
650 0 _aGenomics
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aPharmaceutical industry.
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_cBK