People, Plants, and Patents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People, Plants, and Patents write by Crucible Group. This book was released on 1994. People, Plants, and Patents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People, Plants and Patents: The impact of intellectual property on biodiversity, conservation, trade and rural society
Reinventing Hoodia
Reinventing Hoodia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing Hoodia write by Laura A. Foster. This book was released on 2017-09-18. Reinventing Hoodia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.
Global Biopiracy
Global Biopiracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Biopiracy write by Ikechi Mgbeoji. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Global Biopiracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.
Deadly Monopolies
Deadly Monopolies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadly Monopolies write by Harriet A. Washington. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Deadly Monopolies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.
Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties
Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties write by Laurence R. Helfer. This book was released on 2004. Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study provides an overview of the international intellectual property system regulating plant varieties. It identifies the essential features of this system, including the policies supporting the grant of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the societal objectives in tension with IPRs, the institutions that have shaped the international intellectual property system, and the basic components contained in the relevant international treaties. The study aims to set forth regulatory options for national governments to protect plant varieties while achieving other public policy objectives relating to plant genetic resources.
