Life As Surplus

Author: Melinda Cooper
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 029598791X

Life As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, "Life as Surplus" is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Download Life As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences.The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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