Biocapital : the constitution of postgenomic life - Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- (Durham : Duke University Press, 2006)
Introduction : 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.
Keywords: Biotechnology industries; Genomics -- Economic aspects; Pharmaceutical industry; Genomics -- economics; Genomics -- history; Biotechnology -- history; Drug Industry -- history; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Bioethical issues; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship