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.
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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 n...

Table of 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.