Katerina Sideri

Bioproperty, Biomedicine and Deliberative Governance

Patents as Discourse on Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biomedical patents have been the subject of heated debate and this book looks in detail into the legal issues and ethical debates raised. The volume seeks to contribute to our understanding of the role and function of regulatory agencies in the regulation of the bioeconomy, explains the process of interpretation of legal norms and proposes ways to rethink the reform of the patent system through the lens of legitimacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781138642805
• ISBN-10: 1138642800
• Artikelnr.: 57047518

Autorenporträt

Dr Katerina Sideri is currently lecturing at The Open University, Greece. During the writing of the book she was Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Her research interests are in the areas of: Deliberative Governance; Bioethics; Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Biomedical and Biotechnology Patents, Behaviour and Functions of Administrative Agencies. She has published widely on these and related areas.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Patents as Discourse on Life: The Purposes of
Patents in the Field of Biotechnology and Biomedical Innovation; Part I The
European Patent Office and the Question of Legitimacy: Morality, Ethics and
Technocracy; Chapter 2 The European Patent Office, Biotechnology and
Ethics: Revising Ends of Policy and Rethinking Public Deliberation; Chapter
3 Neutral or Practically Wise Regulator? Genes, Patents and Human Health;
Chapter 4 Rethinking Multilevel Governance in the EU and the Future of the
EPO: From Morality to Ethics; Part II Patents and Public Bioethics; Chapter
5 Public Bioethics: Lay Opinions, and Human Need: From Sex Selection to
Enhancement; Chapter 6 EPO and Public Bioethics: Germ Line Interventions in
Human Embryos, the Problem of Commodification and the Question of
Incentives; Part III Patents, Global Trade and Bioethics: Rethinking Good
Governance; Chapter 7 TRIPs, Access to Medicines and the Global Governance
of Patents: Cultivating Humanity and Equity; Chapter 8 Global Health
Networks and Discursive Legitimacy; Chapter 9 Some Reflections on Good
Patent Governance; Chapter 10 Conclusions: A Discursive Analysis of
Patents;