Who owns you? : science, innovation, and the gene patent wars /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Koepsell, David R. (David Richard) (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015.
• Έκδοση: Second edition.
• Σειρά: Blackwell public philosophy.
• Θέματα: Genes > Patents.; Human genetics > Law and legislation.; Intellectual property > Moral and ethical aspects.; Personality (Law); Biotechnology > Patents.; Genetics.; Patent laws and legislation.; LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.; Genetics, Medical > legislation & jurisprudence.; Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence.; Ownership > ethics.; Electronic books.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell's widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting. Lays bare the theoretical...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Individual and collective rights in genomic data : preliminary issues
• Ethics and ontology : a brief discourse on method
• The science : genes
• DNA, species, individuals, and persons
• Legal dimensions in gene ownership
• BRCA 1 and 2 : the myriad case and beyond
• Are genes intellectual property?
• DNA and the commons
• Pragmatic considerations of gene ownership
• Nature, genes and the scientific commons : a social ontology of invention
• So, who owns you? : some conclusions about genes
• Property, and personhood.