Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes

摘要

Arguments about ownership and property rights arouse strong feelings in most, and ownership and property rights in human bodies or elements thereof are particularly controversial. Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes taps into this controversy. Since the publication of the book, the issue of human gene patenting has once again been particularly high profile. In particular, patents held by Myriad Genetics relating to breast cancer genetic testing are the subject of ongoing litigation in the USA.