Code: 02479875

Life as Surplus

Name: Life as Surplus
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 02479875
Price: 37.69 EUR
Availability: InStock

by Melinda Cooper

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2008
More about this

37.69 €

Low in stock at our supplier
Shipping in 10 - 14 days

Potřebujete více kusů?Máte-li zájem o více kusů, prověřte, prosím, nejprve dostupnost titulu na naši zákaznické podpoře.

Add to wishlist

Lament of the Dead
28.59 € -14 %
Buy
Hebrew Reading and Writing: Self Taught
19.99 €
Buy
Fear of Music - Why People Get Rothko But Don`t Get Stockhausen
11.49 € -19 %
Buy
Bazentin Ridge
17.89 € -4 %
Buy
2 Tales of 2 Dogs
20.49 €
Buy
Mystical Wisdom Card Deck
17.19 € -27 %
Buy
Neon in Daylight
13.29 € -26 %
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

You get 95 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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 neo-liberalism 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 bio-economy. 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 bio-economy. Melinda Cooper is a research fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College London.