Patenting lives life patents, culture and development / edited by Johanna Gibson.

Other author Gibson, Johanna.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub.,
Descriptionix, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesIntellectual property, theory, culture.
Contents The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials / Tony Howard -- Life as chemistry or life as biology? : an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth -- The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi -- The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi -- Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A . Stanton -- Beyond "protection" : promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand / Daniel Robinson -- Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge : does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter? / Chika B. Onwuekwe -- Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal / Diwakar Poudel and Fred H. H. Johnsen -- Is more less? : an evolutionary economics, critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights / Dwijen Rangnekar.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2008009815
ISBN9780754671046 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754671046 (alk. paper)