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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hogan, Andrew J

Titel

The Genealogy of a Gene: Patients, HIV/AIDS, and Race by Myles W. Jackson (review)

Ist Teil von

• Technology and Culture, 2018-10, Vol.59 (4), p.997-998

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]historians not well-versed in this literature will have trouble assessing the strength of Jackson's claim that scholars have oversimplified this history. Most notable was the U.S. Patent Office's (USPTO) hesitance to address human gene patenting, with all of its implications for biomedical research—not to mention its significance for our collective sense of humanity—as being distinct from patents on other chemical compositions of matter. [...]gene patents were granted based on little or no laboratory work, limited knowledge of protein function, and sometimes even with inaccurate sequence data: a situation that likely stifled biomedical research.