This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with new forms of research in the life sciences.

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