1. The concept of the bioeconomy -- 2. Biopolitics, neoliberalism, and the calculative worldview : the economics of life -- 3. New drug development, biotechnology, and the enactment of life -- 4. The tissue economy -- 5. Living in and managing the bioeconomy.

"This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research. New technoscientific frameworks that have not yet translated into new therapies, in the future, may play a more central role in the...