Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-information"In a work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business, and law, Bronwyn Parry links a firsthand investigation of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to an analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations: the rise of an information economy, global intellectual property rights and benefit-sharing regimes, and the progressive molecularization of approaches to biological research. Parry reveals how a failure to monitor this new global trade in bio-information could have potentially disastrous consequences for the suppliers of genetic and biochemical resources - transforming the complex dynamics of collecting, as well as the politics and practice of biological resource exploitation."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
V | 1 |
VI | 12 |
VII | 14 |
VIII | 16 |
IX | 19 |
X | 32 |
XI | 38 |
XII | 42 |
XXVII | 160 |
XXVIII | 166 |
XXIX | 172 |
XXX | 176 |
XXXI | 183 |
XXXII | 190 |
XXXIII | 195 |
XXXIV | 200 |
XIV | 45 |
XV | 54 |
XVI | 78 |
XVII | 102 |
XVIII | 103 |
XIX | 107 |
XX | 113 |
XXI | 117 |
XXII | 122 |
XXIII | 126 |
XXIV | 150 |
XXV | 151 |
XXVI | 156 |
XXXV | 203 |
XXXVI | 207 |
XXXVII | 214 |
XXXVIII | 218 |
XXXIX | 224 |
XL | 229 |
XLI | 243 |
XLII | 249 |
XLIII | 265 |
XLIV | 269 |
XLV | 295 |
XLVI | 307 |
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Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information Bronwyn Parry Limited preview - 2004 |
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