Patent politics : life forms, markets, and the public interest in the United States and Europe /
Shobita Parthasarathy.
- 290 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion.
9780226437859 (cloth : alk. paper)
2016026515
Biotechnology--Patents. Patent laws and legislation--History.--United States Patent laws and legislation--History.--Europe Bioethics--United States. Bioethics--Europe.