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Patenting Lives: a Critical Examination of Life Patents, Including Topics Such as Ethics, Human Rights, Public Health & Agriculture
DUBLIN, Ireland-(Business Wire)-August 14, 2008 - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/99d761/patenting_lives) has announced the addition of the "Patenting Lives" report to their offering.
Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical issues arising from patents and biotechnology - Context; Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks; Medicine and Public Health; Traditional Knowledge; and Agriculture. The international contributors from government, civil society, academia and the private sector provide diverse perspectives on life patents and the facilitation of social, cultural and economic development in the context of international principles of trade.
Key Topics Covered:
- Context: The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials
- Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks: Life as chemistry or life as biology? An ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms
- The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms: a human rights dilemma
- Medicine and Public Health: The genetic sequence right: a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials
- Forfeited consent: body parts in eminent domain
- Traditional Knowledge: Beyond 'protection': promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand
- Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge: does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter?
- Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal
- Is more less? An evolutionary economics critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/99d761/patenting_lives
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