Ethics and patenting of transgenic organisms
By: [edited by  June Fessenden MacDonald]
Contributors: MacDonald, June Fessenden.; National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (U.S.); Texas A & M University. Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics.; NABC Meeting (4th : 1992 : Texas A & M University)
Series: NABC occasional papers : -- #1.; Occasional papers (National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (U.S.)) -- #1.
Publisher: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Bioethics -- Congresses.; Transgenic animals -- Congresses.; Animal biotechnology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at an optional topical seminar of the 4th annual meeting of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council held at Texas A&M University on May 27-30, 1992.

"This NABC 4 optional symposium was co-sponsored by the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council and the Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics at Texas A&M University.  Special funding was provided by the Institute for Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Overview: ethics and patenting of transgenic organisms / Gary E. Varner; value: Owning varieties of life / Edwin Hettinger; value: Concepts of property and the biotechnology debate / Paul B. Thompson; value: Barriers to patent protection for biotechnology and alternatives for removing them / Martin L. McGregor; value: Economic impacts of regulations governing the development and dissemination of agricultural biotechnologies / Judith I. Stallmann; value: Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnology: an overview of research to date / Don E. Albrecht; value: What obligations have scientists to transgenic animals? / Gary Comstock; value: Biotechnology and sustainable agriculture / Martha Crouch.