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.
