Intellectual property rights and biodiversity conservation : an interdisciplinary analysis of the values of medicinal plants / edited by Timothy Swanson.
1995
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Title
Intellectual property rights and biodiversity conservation : an interdisciplinary analysis of the values of medicinal plants / edited by Timothy Swanson.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Call Number
QH75 .I43 1995
ISBN
0521471125
Description
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)31972184
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1
Diversity and sustainability: evolution, information and institutions / Timothy Swanson
1
2
Chemical diversity in plants / Linda Fellows Anthony Scofield
19
3
Ethnobotany and the search for balance between use and conservation / Jennie Wood Sheldon Michael J. Balick
45
4
The pharmaceutical discovery process / Georg Albers-Schonberg
67
5
The role of plant screening and plant supply in biodiversity conservation, drug development and health care / Bruce Aylward
93
6
The economic value of plant-based pharmaceuticals / David Pearce Seema Puroshothaman
127
7
The appropriation of evolution's values: an institutional analysis of intellectual property regimes and biodiversity conservation / Timothy Swanson
141
8
Preserving biodiversity: the role of property rights / Ian Walden
176
9
Medicinal plants, indigenous medicine and conservation of biodiversity in Ghana / Katrina Brown
201
10
Biodiversity and the conservation of medicinal plants: issues from the perspective of the developing world / Mohamed Khalil
232
Index
254