THE ETHICS & BIOPOLITICS OF PATENTING LIFE
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- abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to examine our conceptual understanding of human genetics and living material as is reflected in modern case law. I argue that our relationship to both the natural world and our genetics is improperly construed legally and ethically by the continued practices of archaic patent law.
- subject
- biopatents
- foucault
- genetics
- law
- metaethics
- patent
- contributor
- Hall, Mark A (committee chair)
- King, Nancy MP (committee member)
- Coughlin, Christine N (committee member)
- date
- 2020-01-08T09:35:19Z (accessioned)
- 2019 (issued)
- degree
- Bioethics (discipline)
- 2022-01-07 (liftdate)
- embargo
- 2022-01-07 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/95943 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- THE ETHICS & BIOPOLITICS OF PATENTING LIFE
- type
- Thesis