Chapters in this book

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