Identity, invention, and the culture of personalized medicine patenting

• Main Author: Ghosh, Shubha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2012
• Subjects: Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence; Biotechnology > legislation & jurisprudence; Pharmacogenetics; Genetics, Population; Precision Medicine
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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. T...

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• 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