Cunning of Rights
Subtitle: Law, Life, Biocultures
Publisher: Oxford University Press India; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780199459766
Subjects: Biotechnology; Right of property
Description: This work analyses the theoretical and philosophical frames of new (biotic) property, and assesses how its altered metaphysics inscribes itself in the politics of genetic resources. It probes how rights get framed within and by law and attempts to uncover the cunning or duplicitous nature of these rightsthe chasm between their intended benefits and their actual outcomes.