Who owns you?
the corporate gold-rush to patent your genes
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Author
Publication
2009 - Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
46,750 words, Guess
Page Count
187 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhoownsyoucorpor00koep_365
- Internet Archivewhoownsyoucorpor00koep
- Internet Archivewhoownsyoucorpor0000koep
- ISBN-139781405187312
- ISBN-139781405187305
and 9 more
- ISBN-10140518731X
- ISBN-101405187301
- LibraryThing8578477
- Goodreads5156448
- Library of Congress Control Number2008041638
- OCLC Control Number256769798
- Better World Books9781405187305
- Better World Books9781405187312
- Open LibraryOL22552147M
Classifications
- DDC346.04/86
- LCCK1519.B54 K64 2009
- LCCK1519.B54K64 2009
Description
"Surely you own your own genes, don't you? Think again. Now that the race to map the human genome is over, another competition has ensued. Biotech companies, universities, and research institutions, sensing a biological goldmine, have been engaged in a furious scramble to parent human genes. Presently, more than one-fifth of the human genome is fully parented. As far-fetched as it may sound, corporations and universities now own the exclusive rights to many precious parts of you." "How can this be? Parenting human genes violates international agreements and flies in the face of historical and legal norms regarding the ownership of human parts. Not only that, the practice is a costly and unethical aberration in the law of intellectual property that threatens to impede the pace of scientific and technological progress. Who Owns You? is a wake-up call to the far-reaching implications of the insidious nature of gene parenting." --Book Jacket.
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Series Statement
- Blackwell public philosophy
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