An argument that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of BIOCAPITAL: THE CONSTITUTION OF POSTGENOMIC LIFE (2006).

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Capitalisms and Biotechnologies 1
Part I. Circulations
1. Exchange and Value: Contradictions in Market Logic in American and Indian Genome Enterprises 39
2. Life and Debt: Global and Local Political Ecologies of Biocapital 77
Part II. Articulations
3. Vision and Hype: The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures 107
4. Promise and Fetish: Genomic Facts and Personalized Medicine, or Life Is a Business Plan 138
5. Salvation and Nation: Underlying Belief Structures of Biocapital 182
6. Entrepeneurs and Start-Ups: The Story of an E-learning Company 234
Coda: Surplus and Symptom 277
Notes 289
References 315
Index 327