Intellectual property issues in biotechnology
Intellectual property issues in biotechnology
This book contains 22 chapters focusing on the emerging legal, social and regulatory issues pertaining to biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture, food, pharmaceutics, health care and industry. Expert opinions are also presented by premier academicia…
This book contains 22 chapters focusing on the emerging legal, social and regulatory issues pertaining to biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture, food, pharmaceutics, health care and industry. Expert opinions are also presented by premier academicia…
"Depuis sa publication en 2003, l'ouvrage de Dominique Lecourt n'a rien perdu de son actualité. Le discours des bio-catastrophistes domine encore davantage le monde. Celui du techno-prophètes garde son pouvoir de séduction. Mais l'éthique ne saurait se borner à formuler des inte…
"Depuis sa publication en 2003, l'ouvrage de Dominique Lecourt n'a rien perdu de son actualité. Le discours des bio-catastrophistes domine encore davantage le monde. Celui du techno-prophètes garde son pouvoir de séduction. Mais l'éthique ne saurait se borner à formuler des inte…
« Aujourd'hui, plus encore qu'hier, l'humanisme semble menacé par l'exécration de la technologie que professent certains mouvements de l'écologie politique. (...) Un certain autoritarisme vert s'exerce au nom de la planète sur la vie quotidienne de chacun. Mais les plus fanatiqu…
Humain, posthumain: la technique et la vie
"In Enhancing Me, Pete Moore examines the ways in which technology can change our bodies, our brains, our emotions, and our longevity. He talks to people who claim to have been 'enhanced' to find out what it's like and how beneficial it is; and to the experts to find out what th…
Science is developing more and more potential for human beings to enhance themselves. The pace of change is rapid, and some people are already warning that we are heading for a post-human future populated by ever-lasting, self-sustaining intelligence systems into which the conte…
The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to …
