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Who owns you? : the corporate gold-rush to patent your genes / David Koepsell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koepsell, David R. (David Richard)
- Series:
- Blackwell public philosophy.
- Blackwell public philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genes--Patents.
- Genes.
- Human genetics--Law and legislation.
- Human genetics.
- Intellectual property--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Intellectual property.
- Personality (Law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Who Owns You? is a comprehensive exploration of the numerous philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting.Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this subjectDevelops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutralCalls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612139130
- 1-4443-0859-9
- 1-4443-0858-0
- 1-282-13913-4
- 1-4443-6065-5
- OCLC:
- 778339354
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