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Bioproperty, biomedicine, and deliberative governance : patents as discourse on life
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- Creator
- Katerina Sideri, The Open University, Greece
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- English
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
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- vi, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0754677389, 9780754677383, 0754694704, 9780754694700, 1472403673, 9781472403674
- OCLC
- ocn878224953
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
- Introduction : patents as discourse on life : the purposes of patents in the field of biotechnology and biomedical innovation -- The European Patent Office, biotechnology, and ethics : revising ends of policy, and rethinking public deliberation -- Neutral or practically wise regulator? genes, patents, and human health -- Rethinking multilevel governance in the EU and the future of the EPO : from morality to ethics -- Public bioethics, lay opinions, human need : from sex selection to enhancement -- EPO and public bioethics : germ line interventions in human embryos, the problem of commodification and the question of incentives -- TRIPs, access to medicines, and the global governance of patents, cultivating humanity and equity -- Global health networks and discursive legitimacy -- Some reflections on good patent governance -- Conclusions : a discursive analysis of patents