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9780754671046

Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754671046

  • ISBN10:

    0754671046

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-09-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This collection includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, in the context of current international developments in life patents, and the global agenda of harmonisation of international intellectual property. The book is divided into f

Table of Contents

Introduction: patent publics, patent cultures
Context
The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials
Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks
Life as chemistry or life as biology? An ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms
The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms: a human rights dilemma
Medicine and Public Health
The genetic sequence right: a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials
Forfeited consent: body parts in eminent domain
Traditional Knowledge
Beyond 'protection': promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand
Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge: does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter?
Agriculture
Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal
Is more less? An evolutionary economics critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights
Index
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