1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital 1
5. Part I. Encountering value
6. 1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry 45
7. 2. Value- Added Dogs and Lively Capital 93
8. 3. Air’s Substantiations 121
9. Part II. Property and Dispossession
10. 4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature 155
11. 5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties 184
12. 6. Marx in New Zealand 211
13. 7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors 228
14. Part III. Global Knowledge Formations
15. 8. Diagnostic Liquidity 251
16. 9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals 279
17. 10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism 306
18. Part IV. Promissory experiments and emergent forms of life
19. 11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising 329
20. 12. Desperate and Rational 354
21. 13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research 385
22. Epilogue: Threads and Articulations 437
23. Bibliography 453
24. About the Contributors 491
25. Index 495