Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life Export

@book{RefWorks:50, abstract = {{Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge. Sunder Rajan conducted fieldwork in biotechnology labs and in small start-up companies in the United States (mostly in the San Francisco Bay area) and India (mainly in New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bombay) over a five-year period spanning 1999 to 2004. He draws on his research with scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and policymakers to compare drug development in the two countries, examining the practices and goals of research, the financing mechanisms, the relevant government regulations, and the hype and marketing surrounding promising new technologies. In the process, he illuminates the global flow of ideas, information, capital, and people connected to biotech initiatives. Sunder Rajan\’s ethnography informs his theoretically sophisticated inquiry into how the contemporary world is shaped by the marriage of biotechnology and market forces, by what he calls technoscientific capitalism. Bringing Marxian theories of value into conversation with Foucaultian notions of biopolitics, he traces how the life sciences came to be significant producers of both economic and epistemic value in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.}}, author = {Rajan, Kaushik}, citeulike-article-id = {2137157}, comment = {ID: 817; Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life citeulike:1014999; RP: NOT IN FILE}, keywords = {analysis, biocapital, biotech, biotechnologies, biotechnology, development, economy, genomics, government, life, lt, political, political-economy, regulation, research, science, sciences, scientist, state, states, studies, technology, united}, posted-at = {2007-12-17 15:25:49}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Duke University Press}}, title = {Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life}, year = {2006} }

TY - BOOK ID - RefWorks:50 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2137157 N2 - {Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge. Sunder Rajan conducted fieldwork in biotechnology labs and in small start-up companies in the United States (mostly in the San Francisco Bay area) and India (mainly in New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bombay) over a five-year period spanning 1999 to 2004. He draws on his research with scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and policymakers to compare drug development in the two countries, examining the practices and goals of research, the financing mechanisms, the relevant government regulations, and the hype and marketing surrounding promising new technologies. In the process, he illuminates the global flow of ideas, information, capital, and people connected to biotech initiatives. Sunder Rajan’s ethnography informs his theoretically sophisticated inquiry into how the contemporary world is shaped by the marriage of biotechnology and market forces, by what he calls technoscientific capitalism. Bringing Marxian theories of value into conversation with Foucaultian notions of biopolitics, he traces how the life sciences came to be significant producers of both economic and epistemic value in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.} TI - Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life PB - {Duke University Press} KW - analysis KW - biocapital KW - biotech KW - biotechnologies KW - biotechnology KW - development KW - economy KW - genomics KW - government KW - life KW - lt KW - political KW - political-economy KW - regulation KW - research KW - science KW - sciences KW - scientist KW - state KW - states KW - studies KW - technology KW - united N1 - ID: 817; Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life citeulike:1014999; RP: NOT IN FILE AU - Rajan, Kaushik PY - 2006/// ER -