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Who owns you? : the corporate gold-rush to patent your genes / David Koepsell.

Title
Who owns you? : the corporate gold-rush to patent your genes / David Koepsell.
Author
Koepsell, David R. (David Richard)
Publication
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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187 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"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.
Series Statement
Blackwell public philosophy
Subject
  • Genes > Patents
  • Genetics, Medical > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Human genetics > Law and legislation
  • Intellectual property > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Ownership > ethics
  • Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Personality (Law)
Genre/Form
Patents
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Individual and collective rights in genomic data : preliminary issues -- Ethics and ontology : a brief discourse on method -- The science : genes and phenotypes -- DNA, species, individuals, and persons -- Legal dimensions in gene ownership -- Are genes intellectual property? -- DNA and the commons -- Pragmatic considerations of gene ownership -- So, who owns you? : some conclusions about genes, property, and personhood.
ISBN
  • 9781405187312 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 140518731X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781405187305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405187301 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008041638
OCLC
256769798
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Harvard Library