The commercialization of genetic research
Subtitle: ethical, legal, and policy issues
By: edited by Timothy A. Caulfield and Bryn Williams-Jones.
Contributors: Caulfield, Timothy A., 1963-.; Williams-Jones, Bryn.; International Conference on DNA Sampling: The Commercialization of Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues (2nd : 1998 : Edmonton, Alta.)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses; Genetic engineering -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Congresses; Intellectual property -- United States -- Congresses; Genetics -- Research -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses; Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses; Intellectual property -- United States -- Congresses; Genetics -- Research -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses; Genetic engineering -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Congresses; Genetics -- Congresses; Ethics -- Congresses; Genetic Engineering -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Congresses; Intellectual Property -- Congresses; Public Policy -- Congresses; Research -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on DNA Sampling: The Commercialization of Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues, held September 10-13, 1998, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biotechnology : sovereignty and sharing / Bartha Maria Knoppers; title: National policies influencing innovation based on human genetics / Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan; title: Transformation of a research platform into commercial products : the impact of United States federal policy on biotechnology / Michael J. Malinowski and Nick Littlefield; title: Intellectual property rights and the human genome / Sandy M. Thomas; title: Making room : reintegrating basic research, health policy, and ethics into patent law / E. Richard Gold; title: Conflict of interest and commercialization of biomedical research : what is the role of research ethics review? / Kathleen Cranley Glass and Trudo Lemmens; title: Scientific journals and their authors' financial interests : a pilot study / S. Krimsky ... [et al.]; title: The Icelandic health sector database : legal and ethical considerations / Linda Nielsen; title: Xenotransplantation : science, risk and international regulatory efforts / Abdallah S. Daar; title: Cloning, God, Hitler and mad scientists : arguments used by the public in the cloning debate on the Internet / Darren Shickle; title: Patients' and professionals' views on autonomy, disability, and "discrimination" : results of a 36-nation survey / Dorothy C. Wertz; title: Marketing and fear mongering : time to try private genetic services? / Michael M. Burgess.