Patent to kill
By: April Christofferson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Crimes against -- Fiction.; Pharmaceutical industry -- Fiction.; Traditional medicine -- Fiction.; Physicians -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: It is a new crime for a new century. Biopiracy: theft of the healing secrets of isolated native peoples. Greedy drug companies swoop down on remote third-world tribes, steal their folk medicine and native cures, then reap tremendous profits from the patents. Dome drug companies have even begun to steal human blood ...