Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets (Experimental futures)

Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects—the emotions and desires—involved when technologies and research impinge on experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability, citizenship, accumulation, and dispossession. At stake in the commodification of the life sciences are opportunities to intervene in and adjudicate matters of health, life, and death. Contributors. Timothy Choy, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital - Kaushik Sunder Rajan 12 Part I: Encountering Value 54 1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The BioMarx Experiment - Joseph Dumit 56 2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital - Donna J. Haraway 104 3. Air’s Substantiations - Timothy Choy 132 Part II: Property and Dispossession 164 4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature - Sheila Jasanoff 166 5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties - Elta Smith 195 6. Marx in New Zealand - Travis Tanner 222 7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria - Kristin Peterson 239 Part III: Global Knowledge Formations 260 8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA - Andrew Lakoff 262 9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore - Wen-Hua Kuo 290 10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism - Kim Fortun 317 Part IV: Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms oF Life 338 11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising - Mike Fortun 340 12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community - Chloe Silverman 365 13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research - Michael M. J. Fischer 396 Epilogue: Threads and Articulations - Kaushik Sunder Rajan 448 Bibliography 464 About the Contributors 502 Index 506 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 Prescription Maximization And The Accumulation Of Surplus Health In The Pharmaceutical Industry : The Biomarx Experiment / Joseph Dumit -- Value-added Dogs And Lively Capital / Donna J. Haraway -- Lively Capital Indeed (remix) : Ecodelia And Primary Process Thinking / Richard Doyle -- Air's Substantiations / Timothy Choy -- Taking Life : Private Rights In Public Nature / Sheila Jasanoff -- Rice Genomes : Making Hybrid Properties / Elta Smith -- Marx In New Zealand / Travis Tanner -- Aids Policies For Markets And Warriors : Dispossession, Capital And Pharmaceuticals In Nigeria / Kristin Peterson -- Diagnostic Liquidity : Mental Illness And The Global Trade In Dna / Andrew Lakoff -- Transforming States In The Era Of Global Pharmaceuticals : Visioning Clinical Research In Japan, Taiwan, And Singapore / Wen-hua Kuo -- Biopolitics And The Informating Of Environmentalism / Kim Fortun -- Genomics Scandals And Other Volatilities Of Promising / Mike Fortun -- Desperate And Rational : Of Love, Biomedicine, And Experimental Community / Chloe Silverman -- Lively Biotech And Translational Research / Michael M.j. Fischer. Edited By Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Based On A Workshop Held In Nov. 2004 At The University Of California, Irvine. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [453]-490) And Index. 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.