Bioproperty, Biomedicine and Deliberative Governance

Patents as Discourse on Life

Katerina Sideri (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64280-5 (ISBN)

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Biomedical patents have been the subject of heated debate. Regulatory agencies such as the European Patent Office make small decisions with big implications, which escape scrutiny and revision, when they decide who has access to expensive diagnostic tests, whether human embryonic stem cells can be traded in markets, and under what circumstances human health is more important than animal welfare. Moreover, the administration of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights by the World Trade Organization has raised considerable disquiet as it has arguably created grave health inequities. Those doubting the merits of the one size fits all approach ask whether priority should be given to serving the present needs of populations in dire need of medication or to promoting global innovation. The book looks in detail into the legal issues and ethical debates to ask the following three main questions: First, what are the ideas, goals, and broader ethical visions that underpin questions of governance and the legal reasoning employed by administrative agencies? Second, how can we democratize the decision making process of technocratic institutions such as the European Patent Office? Finally, how can we make the global intellectual property system more equitable? In answering these questions the book 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.

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.

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-64280-0 / 1138642800
ISBN-13	978-1-138-64280-5 / 9781138642805
Zustand	Neuware