![]() | Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era Subjects: Biotechnology -- Political aspects -- United States; Life sciences -- Political aspects -- United States; Capitalism -- Health aspects -- United States; 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. Melinda Cooper is a research fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College London. |
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