Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 1
Part I. Encountering Value
1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The_BioMarx_Experiment / Joseph Dumit 45
2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital / Donna J. Haraway 93
3. Air's Substantiations / Timothy Choy 121
Part II. Property and Dispossession
4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature / Sheila Jasanoff 155
5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties / Elta Smith 184
6. Marx in New Zealand / Travis Tanner 211
7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson 228
Part III. Global Knowledge Formations
8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA / Andrew Lakoff 251
9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore / Wen-Hau Kuo 279
10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism / Kim Fortun 306
Part IV. Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms of Life
11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising / Mike Fortun 329
12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community / Chloe Silverman 354
13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research / Michael M. J. Fischer 385
Epilogue: Threads and Articulations / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 437
Bibliography 453
About the Contributors 491
Index 495