Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.735kg
ISBN: 9780822348313
ISBN 10: 0822348314
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 02 April 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate all co-evolve as life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances are differentially capitalized. These essays convince us that Lively Capital , is, indeed, a living social form, and they provide a stunningly provocative read! --Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
""The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate all co-evolve as life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances are differentially capitalized. These essays convince us that Lively Capital, is, indeed, a living social form, and they provide a stunningly provocative read!"" Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America ""Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavour 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
Author Information
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.
