Accessing and Sharing the Benefits of the Genomics Revolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peter, W.B (Editor), Onwuekwe, Chika B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 11
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the ‘code of life’ embodied in the world’s current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations. In response, the communities that see themselves as th...