Trading the Genome - Investing the Commodification of Bio-Information

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-12174-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Bronwyn

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Industrielle Biotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction Part 2. The Collection of Nature and the Nature of Collecting Revealing the Social and Spatial Dynamics of CollectingCollecting as Simple Acquisition: Decontextualization and ExoticizationCollection as Concentration and ControlCollection as Recirculation and RegulationNew World CollectorsPart 3: Speedup: Accelerating the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting Retheorizing Life Forms: Material and Informational?The Rise of the Information and Bio-Information EconomiesEmerging Markets: The Regulation of Trade in Bio-InformationPart 4: New Collectors, New Collections "When the world was a kinder and gentler place": Early Players and Vacation Pursuits"An historic revival of collecting"Impetus for the Revival: Technological ChangeThe Biodiversity Convention: New Protocols and New RationalesGATT TRIPs: New Protections, New IncentivesThe Practice and Process of CollectingPart 5: The Fate of the Collections From Reproduction to Replication"Build it for us"Combinations and PermutationsThe Diminishing Role of in situ CollectingThe Advent of MicrosourcingRe-mining ex situ CollectionsThe Emerging Trade in Collected Genetic and Biochemical MaterialsHire Plants: Renters and BrokersTransacting Bio-Information: Licensing and "Pay-per-View"Part 6: Taming the Slippery Beast: Regulating Trade in Bio-Information Compensatory Agreements: The Rise of a Proto-Universal Culture of Regulation?Networks, Capillaries, and the Geography of Knowledge SystemsCompensatory Agreements: Investigating Terms and ConditionsInfrastructural Support and Technical TrainingFuture Benefits: Royalty PaymentsTaming the Slippery BeastRegulating the Unlicensed Copying of Bio-InformationConcentration and Control: Patenting Collected MaterialsThe Complexities of "Co-Inventorship"Part 7: Back to the Future

Über Autor(innen)

Bronwyn Parry is an economic and cultural geographer who holds a senior research fellowship at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on the creation and use of human tissue collections in the UK.