Gene patents can be ethical

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 417-421

  McGee, Glenn ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OWNERSHIP; PATENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032158606     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180198004125     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. U.S. Constitution, Article 1, §8, cl 8; U.S. Code Title 35, §101, 102 (1982).
2. Caplan AL, Merz J. Patenting gene sequences. British Medical Journal 1996;312:926; see also Halewood P. Law's bodies: disembodiment and the structure of liberal property rights. Iowa Law Review 1996;81(5):133-93; Kimbrell A. The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life. New York: Free Press 1993; Barrad C. Genetic information and property theory. Northwestern University Law Review 1993;87(3):1037-86.
3. Caplan AL, Merz J. Patenting gene sequences. British Medical Journal 1996;312:926; see also Halewood P. Law's bodies: disembodiment and the structure of liberal property rights. Iowa Law Review 1996;81(5):133-93; Kimbrell A. The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life. New York: Free Press 1993; Barrad C. Genetic information and property theory. Northwestern University Law Review 1993;87(3):1037-86.
4. Caplan AL, Merz J. Patenting gene sequences. British Medical Journal 1996;312:926; see also Halewood P. Law's bodies: disembodiment and the structure of liberal property rights. Iowa Law Review 1996;81(5):133-93; Kimbrell A. The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life. New York: Free Press 1993; Barrad C. Genetic information and property theory. Northwestern University Law Review 1993;87(3):1037-86.
5. Caplan AL, Merz J. Patenting gene sequences. British Medical Journal 1996;312:926; see also Halewood P. Law's bodies: disembodiment and the structure of liberal property rights. Iowa Law Review 1996;81(5):133-93; Kimbrell A. The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life. New York: Free Press 1993; Barrad C. Genetic information and property theory. Northwestern University Law Review 1993;87(3):1037-86.
6. Merz J, Cho M, Robertson M, Leonard D. Disease gene patenting is a bad innovation. Molecular Diagnosis 1997;2(4):299-304.
7. See note 4, Merz et al. 1997:401.