Indigenous Heritage and Biopiracy in the Age of Intellectual Property Rights

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 256-259

  Tedlock, Barbara ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INHERITANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; OWNERSHIP; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33646509431     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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