The genealogy of a gene : patents, HIV/AIDS, and race / Myles W. Jackson.
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy" of CCR5 -- intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Small Pharma, human diversity studies, persona...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Table of Contents:
- The story of the CCR5 gene
- The CCR5 patent(s)
- Gene patenting and the product-of-nature doctrine
- The CCR5 patent and intellectual property law
- The European response to the CCR5 patent
- CCR5 and HIV/AIDS diagnostics and therapeutics
- Race, place, and pathogens
- Race, difference, and genes
- Epilogue: the end of an error?