Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting(English, Hardcover, Ghosh Shubha)

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Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting(English, Hardcover, Ghosh Shubha) is written by Ghosh Shubha and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107011914 (ISBN 10) and 9781107011915 (ISBN 13).

What are the normative implications of patenting in the area of personalized medicine? As patents on genes and medical diagnoses have increased over the past decade, this question lies at the intersection of intellectual property theory, identity politics, biomedical ethics and constitutional law. These patents are part of the personalized medicine industry, which develops medical treatments tailored to individuals based on race and other characteristics. This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and suggests policies to best regulate such patents. Table of Contents 1. Persons and patents 2. Start-ups, up-starts, and markets for personalized medicine 3. The case of race-specific patents 4. Normative construction of identity 5. Persons, patents, and policy 6. A business, a litigant, a metaphor: the future of personalized medicine patents.