Melinda Cooper is an ARC Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (Washington University Press, 2008) and coauthor, with Catherine Waldby, of Clinical Labor: Human Research Subjects and Tissue Donors in the Global Bioeconomy (Duke University Press, 2014). She is currently working on two single-authored book projects—Experimental Humanitarianism, and The Fundamentals of Desire—Post-Fordist Family Values. She is coeditor of The Journal of Cultural Economy.
Melinda Cooper
