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Who owns life?
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c2002
(OCoLC)606804033
Online version:
Who owns life?
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c2002
(OCoLC)607851668
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Magnus; Arthur L Caplan; Glenn McGee
ISBN: 1573929867 9781573929868
OCLC Number: 49719363
Description: 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / David Magnus --
Patenting of life-forms : from a concept to reality / A.M. Chakrabarty --
Patenting organisms : intellectual property law meets biology / Jack Wilson --
Ethical issues and application of patent laws in biotechnology / Rochelle K. Seide and Carmella L. Stephens --
Patenting human genes : the advent of ethics in the political economy of patent law / Ari Berkowitz and Daniel J. Kevles --
Discoveries : are there limits on what may be patented? / Jon F. Merz --
How can you patent genes? / Rebecca S. Eisenberg. Discoveries, inventions, and gene patents / David B. Resnik --
Patenting genes and life : improper commodification? / Mark J. Hanson --
Falling from grace : science and the pursuit of profit / Robert Lee Hotz --
Propriety and property : the tissue market meets the courts / Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin --
Property rights and human bodies / Pilar N. Ossorio --
Ethical issues in the patenting and control of stem cell research / Glenn McGee and Elizabeth Banger --
Intellectual property and agricultural biotechnology : bioprospecting or biopiracy? / David Magnus.
Responsibility: edited by David Magnus, Arthur Caplan, Glenn McGee.

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