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Who Owns You? – The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes

D Koepsell (Autor)

Software / Digital Media
200 Seiten
2009
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4443-0858-7 (ISBN)
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Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment covering the philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutral Calls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting.
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 subject Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutral Calls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting

David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at the Technology University of Delft, in The Netherlands, andSenior Fellow, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property , as well as numerous scholarly articles on law, philosophy, science, and ethics.

Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Issues 20 2 Ethics and Ontology: A Brief Discourse on Method 40 3 The Science: Genes and Phenotypes 49 4 DNA, Species, Individuals, and Persons 66 5 Legal Dimensions in Gene Ownership 83 6 Are Genes Intellectual Property? 101 7 DNA and The Commons 119 8 Pragmatic Considerations of Gene Ownership 137 9 So, Who Owns You?: Some Conclusions about Genes, Property, and Personhood 155 Notes 171 Index 181

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.4.2009
Verlagsort Chicester
Sprache englisch
Maße 166 x 242 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
ISBN-10 1-4443-0858-0 / 1444308580
ISBN-13 978-1-4443-0858-7 / 9781444308587
Zustand Neuware
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