Who Owns Life?
David Magnus
Art Caplan
Glenn McGee

Table of Contents 

Introduction
David Magnus 

Patenting of Life Forms: From a Concept to Reality 
A. M. Chakrabarty

Patenting Organisms: Intellectual Property Law Meets Biology 
Jack Wilson 

Ethical issues and Application of Patents Laws in Biotechnology 
Rochelle K. Seide, Carmella Stephens 

The Advent of Ethics in the Political Economy of Patent Law 
Ari Berkowitz and Daniel J. Kevles

Discoveries : are There Limits on What May be Patented?
Jon F. Merz 

How Can You Patent Genes? 
Rebecca S. Eisenberg 

Discoveries, Inventions, and Gene Patents 
David B. Resnik 

Patenting Genes and Life: Improper Commodification? 
Mark J. Hanson 

Falling from Grace: Science and the Pursuit of Profit 
Robert Lee Hotz 

Propriety and Property: the Tissue Market Meets the Courts 
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin 

Property Rights and Human Bodies 
Pilar Ossorio

Ethical Issues in the Patenting and Control of Stem Cell Research
Glenn McGee and Elizabeth Banger

Intellectual Property and Agricultural Biotechnology: Bioprospecting or Biopiracy
David Magnus

 

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