Title: Patenting life
First published: 1993
Description: The author discuss how and why the current international intellectual property rights trends observed in the pharmaceutical sector, where the U.S. hegemony is evident, express a double and contradictory rationale: on one hand, private appropriation in the market globalization process; on the the other hand, public disclousure vis-a-vis  control over scientific information.
LC classification: MLCS 99/03206 (R)