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

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Joseph Dumit

Donna J. Haraway

Timothy Choy

Shelia Jasanoff

Elta Smith

Travis Tanner

Kristin Peterson

Andrew Lakoff

Wen-Hua Kuo

Kim Fortun

Mike Fortun

Chloe Silverman

Michael M. J. Fischer

“This book... is an important collection of essays in the fields of ethics and governance of new life sciences innovation, and deserves to be read by sociologists, ethicists, cultural anthropologists, and all those who work in this field.”—Theo Papaioannou, Geonomics, Society and Policy

“In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies.” —Brett Edwards, BioScience

“This book... is an important collection of essays in the fields of ethics and governance of new life sciences innovation, and deserves to be read by sociologists, ethicists, cultural anthropologists, and all those who work in this field.”—Theo Papaioannou, Geonomics, Society and Policy

“In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies.” —Brett Edwards, BioScience

"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

“Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally.”—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"—Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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