Bioeconomies : Life, Technology, and Capital in the 21st Century

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care p...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Pavone, Vincenzo (Editor), Goven, Joanna (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Management.
Industrial management.
Public policy.
Bioethics.
Philosophy and science.
Life sciences.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.the 'Entrepreneurial State' and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine
  • 3.Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy
  • 4. "Having a Structuring Effect on Europe". The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy
  • 5. The Underworlds Project and The "Collective Microbiome": Mining Biovalue from Sewage
  • 6. Bio-Identification, Value Creation and the Reproductive Bioeconomy. Insights from the Reprogenetics Sector in Spain
  • 7. Making Value(s) through Social Contracts for Biomedical Population Research
  • 8. Data-Sharing Politics and the Logics of Competition in Biobanking
  • 9. Reproducing the Border: Kinship Legalities in the Bioeconomy
  • 10. Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina's Bioeconomy
  • 11. Egg Donation in the Making: Gender, Selection and (in)Visibilities in the Spanish Bioeconomy of Reproduction
  • 12. Thinking (Bioeconomies) through Care: Patients' Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting
  • 13. Who Is My Donor? A New Bioeconomy of Blood and Its Changing Ontology
  • 14. Conclusion.

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