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Discusses pub lic policy issues and stem cells, DNA technologies, abortion, HIV, and the power of governments to control such issues

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Melinda Cooper is a research fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College London.

Reviews

"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