Book ID: CBB000775229

Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (2006)

unapi

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xi + 343 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Ethnographical account of biotechnology labs and start-up companies in the US and India from 1999 to 2004, focusing on how economic and regulatory concerns affect the science.


Reviewed By

Review November, Joseph (2008) Review of "Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 225). unapi

Review Liew, Kai Khiun (2014) Review of "Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 141-142). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000775229/

Similar Citations

Article Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner; Prasanna Kumar Patra; (2017)
Bionetworking and Strategic Linking between India and Japan: How Clinical Stem Cell Intervention Continues despite New Regulatory Guidelines (/isis/citation/CBB575681648/)

Thesis Sung, Wen-Ching; (2006)
Global Science: The Convergence of Biotechnology and Capitalism in China (/isis/citation/CBB001561711/)

Chapter Adam Briggle; (2014)
Bioconservatism as Customized Science (/isis/citation/CBB130822370/)

Thesis Rogers, Susan Nadia; (2011)
Social Arrangements in Genomic Science: How Microarray Data and Researchers Shaped Each Other (/isis/citation/CBB001562822/)

Book O'Doherty, Kieran; Einsiedel, Edna F; (2013)
Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies (/isis/citation/CBB001420078/)

Article Waldby, Catherine; (2009)
Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City-State (/isis/citation/CBB000932553/)

Book Hughes, Sally Smith; (2011)
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (/isis/citation/CBB001221219/)

Article Frank, Reanne; (2015)
Back to the Future? The Emergence of a Geneticized Conceptualization of Race in Sociology (/isis/citation/CBB001510181/)

Article P Omkar Nadh; (2023)
India’s Biotech Emergence: A Critical Political Economy Analysis (/isis/citation/CBB795174326/)

Article Poonam Pandey; Aviram Sharma; (2017)
NGOs, Controversies, and “Opening Up” of Regulatory Governance of Science in India (/isis/citation/CBB915250388/)

Thesis Radin, Joanna M.; (2012)
Life on Ice: Frozen Blood and Biological Variation in a Genomic Age, 1950--2010 (/isis/citation/CBB001560842/)

Article Strasser, Bruno J.; (2011)
The Experimenter's Museum: GenBank, Natural History, and the Moral Economies of Biomedicine (/isis/citation/CBB001022861/)

Article Catherine Heeney; (2021)
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study? (/isis/citation/CBB475661753/)

Authors & Contributors
Yi, Doogab
Pandey, Poonam
Patra, Prasanna Kumar
P. Omkar Nadh
Heeney, Catherine
Fukushima, Masato
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology and Human Values
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
McGill University (Canada)
University of Chicago Press
UBC Press
University of Southern California
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Concepts
Biotechnology
Genomics
Biology
Biomedical technology
Science and society
Legislative and administrative regulations
People
Kim, Jin-Soo
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
India
Japan
South Korea
Singapore
France
Institutions
Human Genome Project
Beijing Genomics Institute
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment