Who Owns You? Science, Innovation, and the Gene Patent Wars
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication date:
- 2015-06-24
- Authors:
-
David Koepsell
(Author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy) - ISBN:
- 978-1-118-94850-7
Description:
The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell’s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.
Lays bare the theoretical assumptions that underpin the injustice of patents on unmodified genes
Makes a unique argument for a commons-by-necessity, explaining how parts of the universe are simply not susceptible to monopoly claims
Represents the only work that attempts to first define the nature of the genetic objects involved before any ethical conclusions are reached
Provides the most comprehensive accounting of the various lawsuits, legislative changes, and the public debate surrounding AMP v. Myriad, the most significant case regarding gene patents
Lays bare the theoretical assumptions that underpin the injustice of patents on unmodified genes
Makes a unique argument for a commons-by-necessity, explaining how parts of the universe are simply not susceptible to monopoly claims
Represents the only work that attempts to first define the nature of the genetic objects involved before any ethical conclusions are reached
Provides the most comprehensive accounting of the various lawsuits, legislative changes, and the public debate surrounding AMP v. Myriad, the most significant case regarding gene patents
Index
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Issues
- Ethics and Ontology: A Brief Discourse on Method
- The Science of Genes
- DNA, Species, Individuals, and Persons
- Legal Dimensions in Gene Ownership
- BRCA1 and 2: The Myriad Case and Beyond
- Are Genes Intellectual Property?
- DNA and The Commons
- Pragmatic Considerations of Gene Ownership
- Nature, Genes, and the Scientific Commons: A Social Ontology of Invention
- So, Who Owns You? Some Conclusions About Genes, Property, and Personhood
- Notes