Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Yc2mNM Who Owns You?: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes By: David Koepsell Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (STMS) Print ISBN: 9781405187305, 1405187301 eText ISBN: 9781444326963, 1444326961 Edition: 1st Pages: 200 Format: PDF Available from $ 83.99 USD SKU 9781444326963 Surely you own your own genes, don't you? Think again. Now that the race to map the human genome is over, another competition has ensued. Biotech companies, universities, and research institutions, sensing a biological gold mine, have been engaged in a furious scramble to patent human genes. Patenting human genes violates international agreements and flies in the face of historical and legal norms regarding the ownership of human parts. Not only that, the practice is a costly and unethical aberration in the law of intellectual property that threatens to impede the pace of scientific and technological progress. Who Owns You? is a wake-up call to the far-reaching implications of the insidious nature of gene patenting.
