Patenting lives :  life patents, culture and development / 
edited by Johanna Gibson. 
 - Aldershot, England ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate Pub.,  c2008. 
 - ix, 200 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Intellectual property, theory, culture. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials / Tony Howard -- Life as chemistry or life as biology? : an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth -- The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi -- The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi -- Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A . Stanton -- Beyond "protection" : promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand / Daniel Robinson -- Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge : does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter? / Chika B. Onwuekwe -- Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal / Diwakar Poudel and Fred H. H. Johnsen -- Is more less? : an evolutionary economics, critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights / Dwijen Rangnekar. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754671046 (alk. paper) 0754671046 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008009815 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biotechnology--Patents.<br/>Biotechnology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K1519.B54  / PAT 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.04/86