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Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine Viruses and genomes have become the subjects of sovereign claims in contemporary biomedical research. These claims invest biological materials with geopolitical attachments to both nation-states and continental regions and seek to alter the property regimes that characterize global biological economies. As rhetorical and juridical devices, sovereign claims over viruses and genomes seek to establish new kinds of enclosures to control biological life. The recasting of sovereignty over biological parts, we argue, gains purchase by tethering biological materials to constructed origin points as they travel through global research and commodity networks. biomedicine genomic sovereignty global health property viral sovereignty http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

Public Culture , Volume 27 (2 76) – May 1, 2015

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Duke University Press
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0899-2363
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1527-8018
DOI
10.1215/08992363-2841904
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Abstract

Viruses and genomes have become the subjects of sovereign claims in contemporary biomedical research. These claims invest biological materials with geopolitical attachments to both nation-states and continental regions and seek to alter the property regimes that characterize global biological economies. As rhetorical and juridical devices, sovereign claims over viruses and genomes seek to establish new kinds of enclosures to control biological life. The recasting of sovereignty over biological parts, we argue, gains purchase by tethering biological materials to constructed origin points as they travel through global research and commodity networks. biomedicine genomic sovereignty global health property viral sovereignty

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Public CultureDuke University Press

Published: May 1, 2015

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