Who Owns Life?
Contributors: David Magnus (Editor); Arthur L. Caplan (Editor); Glenn McGee (Editor)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781573929868
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; Ethics & moral philosophy; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Genes; Science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Biotechnology; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Genetic engineering; Patents
First sentence: Back in 1965 after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Calcutta in India, I joined the laboratory of Dr. I. C. Gunsalus at the University of Illinois at Urbana to study the nutritional versatility of a group of microorganisms called Pseudomonas.
Description: Now that the privatization feeding frenzy is reaching people's bodies and the genes of their potential children, scholars of biological and medical sciences, philosophy, law, and social sciences look ahead to predict who will end up owning people--probably a few biotechnology companies--and whether or not this is a good idea for anyone but those companies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.