Life as surplus : biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era / Melinda Cooper.

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008], ©2008.

ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

"A McLellan book."

Life beyond the limits: inventing the bioeconomy -- On pharmaceutical empire: AIDS, security, and exorcism -- Preempting emergence: the biological turn in the war on terror -- Contortions: tissue engineering and the topological body -- Labors of regeneration: stem cells and the embryoid bodies of capital -- The unborn born again: neo-imperialism, the evangelical right, and the culture of life.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.