Download Life as Surplus PDF Free

Life as Surplus PDF Download. Download free ebook of Life as Surplus in PDF format or read online by Melinda E. Cooper 9780295990316 Published on 2011-02-01 by University of Washington Press

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.

This Book was ranked at 9 by Google Books for keyword Biotechnology.

Book ID of Life as Surplus's Books is wYOhED4NRhIC, Book which was written by Melinda E. Cooper have ETAG "ZVUsCOQqFKo"

Book which was published by University of Washington Press since 2011-02-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780295990316 and ISBN 10 Code is 0295990317

Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "208 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryScience

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true

Book Preview

Download Life as Surplus PDF Free

Download Life as Surplus Books Free

Download Life as Surplus Free

Download Life as Surplus PDF

Download Life as Surplus Books