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

• Main Author: Koepsell, David R.
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
• Series: Blackwell public philosophy.
• Subjects: Genes > Patents.; Human genetics > Law and legislation.; Intellectual property > Moral and ethical aspects.; Personality (Law); Genes.; Human genetics.; Intellectual property.; LAW > Intellectual Property > Patent.; Genetics, Medical > legislation & jurisprudence.; Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence.; Ownership > ethics.; Electronic books.; Patents.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (187 pages).
• Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
• ISBN: 9781444308587; 1444308580; 9781444308594; 1444308599; 1282139134; 9781282139138

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.