Discusses pub lic policy issues and stem cells, DNA technologies, abortion, HIV, and the power of governments to control such issues
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Life Beyond the Limits: Inventing the Bioeconomy
2. On Pharmaceutical Empire: AIDS, Security, and Exorcism
3. Preempting Emergence: The Biological Turn in the War on
Terror
Intermezzo
4. Contortions: Tissue Engineering and the Topological Body
5. Labors of Regeneration: Stem Cells and the Embryoid Bodies of
Capital
6. The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right,
and the Culture of Life
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
Melinda Cooper is a research fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College London.
"A book of topical timeliness and conceptual and political importance. Cooper reads two terms-biopolitics and neoliberalism-in exciting, exceptional ways, and provides an astute account of contemporary American political culture." Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life [Duke University Press] ...it fills a knowledge gap in fields too many radicals usually ignore: biotechnology, tissue-engineering, stem cell research and AIDS...we would recommend this book to all radicals. - Mute Magazine, 21st October 2008
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