Full Description
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 practices. Governments and science enthusiasts worldwide are embracing the bioeconomy, championing it as the key to health, wealth, and sustainability, while citing it as justification to transform research and regulatory institutions, health and agricultural practices, ethics of privacy and ownership, and conceptions of self and kin. Drawing together studies from Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe, this volume encompasses subjects as diverse as regenerative medicine, population health research, agricultural finance, biobanking, assisted reproduction, immigration, breastfeeding, self-help groups, GM fish, and mining sewage.
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.
