Laura A Foster

Reinventing Hoodia

Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Laura A. Foster is an assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University¿Bloomington with affiliations in African studies and the Maurer School of Law. She is also a senior researcher with the Intellectual Property Unit at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780295742182
• ISBN-10: 0295742186
• Artikelnr.: 48139043

Autorenporträt

Laura Foster is assistant professor of gender studies and affiliate faculty of the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received her JD at the University of Cincinnati in 2000 and her Ph.D in women's studies at UCLA in 2012. This will be her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
1. Colonial Science and Hoodia as a Scientific Object
2. San Demands for Benefits by Knowing !Khoba as a Plant
from Nature
3. South African Scientists and the Patenting of Hoodia
as a Molecule
4. Botanical Drug Discovery of Hoodia, from Solid Drug
to Liquid Food
5. Hoodia Growers and the Making of Hoodia as a Cultivated
Plant
Epilogue Implications of a Feminist Decolonial Technoscience
Appendix 1: Community Protocols and Research Guidelines
for Working with Indigenous Peoples
Appendix 2: Strategies for Patent Litigation
Notes
Bibliography
Index