Identity, invention, and the culture of personalized medicine patenting / (Record no. 16360)
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107011915 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107011915 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KN114.1 .G46 2016 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Ghosh, Shubha. |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Identity, invention, and the culture of personalized medicine patenting / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Shubha Ghosh |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication or production | 2012 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 216 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Machine generated contents note: 1. Persons and patents; 2. Start-ups, up-starts, and markets for personalized medicine; 3. The case of race-specific patents; 4. Normative construction of identity; 5. Persons, patents, and policy; 6. A business, a litigant, a metaphor: the future of personalized medicine patents |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "What are the normative implications of patenting in the area of personalized medicine? As patents on genes and medical diagnoses have increased over the past decade, this question lies at the intersection of intellectual property theory, identity politics, biomedical ethics and constitutional law. These patents are part of the personalized medicine industry, which develops medical treatments tailored to individuals based on race and other characteristics. This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and suggests policies to best regulate such patents"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | LAW |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Biotechnology |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Biotechnology |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | LAW |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | LAW |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | moys |
| Koha item type | Books |
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