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DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS MEDICINE?
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\nCentre for the Study of Invention and So
 cial Process (CSISP) Seminar
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\nThis paper considers the relocation of cl
 inical trials and human subject experimentation to China as a key site for 
 examining the evolving fortunes of Chinese and North-American neo-liberalis
 m. Beginning with the premise that  neo-liberalism as a mode of capitalism 
 oscillates between the imperatives of labour fluidity and incarceration\, i
 t considers the history of clinical trials\, imprisonment and regulation in
  the US as the necessary context for understanding the recent rush to offsh
 oring. What can we deduce about the trends towards social and economic refo
 rm in China\, where a strikingly state-planned\, indeed eugenic\, approach 
 to public health\, is coupled with a dramatic restructuring of the health s
 ystem\, every bit as radical as that pursued by Reagan and his successors i
 n the United States? In this paper\, I seek to understand drug and body exp
 erimentation as practices that characterise both neo-liberal accumulation s
 trategies and an anti-disciplinarian politics of health. In other words\, i
 f the will to experiment has become a distinguishing trait of contemporary 
 capitalism\, it is also much more than that. Keeping in mind the slogan of 
 AIDS activists in the nineties\,who claimed that "clinical trials are healt
 h care too"\, I will be interested in some of the tensions that are arising
  in China around the politics of infectious disease\, sex and drug use.
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\nMelinda Cooper graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2001. Sh
 e has published widely in journals such as Theory\, Culture and Society\, A
 ngelaki\, Configurations\, Contretemps\, Alternatives: Global\, Local\, Pol
 itical\, PostModern Culture and Distinktion: Journal of Scandinavian Social
  Theory. Her book Surplus Life: Biotechnology in the Neo-Liberal Era is for
 thcoming from Washington University Press in 2007. She is currently post-do
 ctoral research fellow in the Institute of Health at the University of East
  Anglia\, where she is part of the Global Biopolitics Research Group.
SUMMARY:Clinical Capital - Neo-Liberalism and the Will to Experiment (China
  and The Us)
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LOCATION:Goldsmiths College University of London Warmington Tower Room 1204
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