The human genome as common heritage of mankind / Jean Buttigieg.
2018
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Title
The human genome as common heritage of mankind / Jean Buttigieg.
Published
Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2018]
Call Number
K3611.G46 B88 2018
ISBN
9783838211572 paperback
383821157X paperback
383821157X paperback
Description
250 pages ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1015902935
Summary
Jean Buttigieg demonstrates the necessity to make it a legal principle of international law that the human genome is a common heritage of mankind. The patent system encourages the commercialization of the human genome, effectively hindering discoversies that prompt new and better medical treatments. The true essence of the human genome, Buttigieg argues, is to be found in metaphysics and not biology, discussing philosophical concerns surrounding the field of biotechnology.
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Jean Buttigieg demonstrates the necessity to make it a legal principle of international law that the human genome is a common heritage of mankind. The patent system encourages the commercialization of the human genome, effectively hindering discoversies that prompt new and better medical treatments. The true essence of the human genome, Buttigieg argues, is to be found in metaphysics and not biology, discussing philosophical concerns surrounding the field of biotechnology.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250).
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Table of Contents
Abstract
7
Acknowledgements
13
Introduction Arvid Pardo and the Human Genome
15
0.1.
Race to Grab the Bounties of the Seabed and Ocean Floor
15
0.2.
Race to Grab the Bounties of our DNA
21
0.3.
Technology Question
26
ch. One
Human Genome---Common or Patentable Subject Matter?
35
1.1.
Human Genome as Common Heritage
35
1.2.
Human Genome as Patentable Subject Matter
45
1.3.
Anti-Commons of Biomedical Research
48
1.4.
Patenting Life
50
1.5.
Biotechnological Patents versus Public Morality
60
1.6.
Stem-Cell Market
67
1.7.
Patents and the Pursuit of Scientific Progress
73
1.8.
Who Owns You?
75
ch. Two
Human Genome as Common Heritage
79
2.1.
Philosophical Concept or Political Slogan?
79
2.2.
Beneath the Surface of the Common Heritage of Mankind
88
2.3.
Birthright of the Common Heritage of Mankind
93
2.4.
Common Heritage of Mankind as a Model of Political Stewardship
97
2.5.
Common Heritage of Mankindas a Challenge to Legal Positivism
102
2.6.
Preventing Another Mare Liberum
109
2.7.
Making the Common Heritage of Mankind a Legal Principle of International Law
112
2.8.
International Management of the Human Genome as a Common Heritage of Mankind
121
2.9.
Extrapolating with the Common Heritage of Mankind
127
2.10.
Further Reaches of the Genome
131
2.11.
Launching the Global Governance of the Human Genome
135
ch. Three
Human Genome as Heritage of Humanity in a Symbolic Sense
139
3.1.
Formatting the Genome
139
3.2.
Genes in a Test Tube?
141
3.3.
Darwin Revisited!
144
3.4.
Genie in the Genome
153
3.5.
Transcendental Nature of the Human Genome
156
3.6.
Thought Experiment
164
3.7.
Of Genomes and Souls
164
3.8.
Human Difference
170
ch. Four
Questioning the Nexus Between Biotechnology and the Human Genome
173
4.1.
In the Shadow of Technology
173
4.2.
Unconcealing the Concealed in Technology
175
4.3.
Transforming Technology
177
4.4.
Technological Stewardship
188
4.5.
Genome and the Enigma of Health
197
4.6.
Art of Healing as an Epiphany for Biotechnology
203
4.7.
Permanent Limitations of Biology
206
4.8.
Ethics for Biotechnology
207
4.9.
Tragedy of Biotechnology
209
4.10.
Re-Thinking Biotechnology with the Human Genome as Common Heritage of Mankind
215
4.11.
Embryo Question
219
Conclusions
225
Bibliography
231