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Who Owns You - The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes

Who Owns You - The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes

 eBook, Published by Wiley   (23 September 2011)

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Who Owns You? is a comprehensive exploration of the numerous philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting.

  • Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this subject
  • Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutral
  • Calls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting
David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at the Technology University of Delft, in The Netherlands, andSenior Fellow, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property , as well as numerous scholarly articles on law, philosophy, science, and ethics.