Bioproperty, Biomedicine and Deliberative Governance

Dr Katerina Sideri is currently lecturing at The Open University, Greece. During the writing of the book she was Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Her research interests are in the areas of: Deliberative Governance; Bioethics; Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Biomedical and Biotechnology Patents, Behaviour and Functions of Administrative Agencies. She has published widely on these and related areas.

Chapter 1 Introduction Patents as Discourse on Life: The Purposes of Patents in the Field of Biotechnology and Biomedical Innovation; Part I The European Patent Office and the Question of Legitimacy: Morality, Ethics and Technocracy; Chapter 2 The European Patent Office, Biotechnology and Ethics: Revising Ends of Policy and Rethinking Public Deliberation; Chapter 3 Neutral or Practically Wise Regulator? Genes, Patents and Human Health; Chapter 4 Rethinking Multilevel Governance in the EU and the Future of the EPO: From Morality to Ethics; Part II Patents and Public Bioethics; Chapter 5 Public Bioethics: Lay Opinions, and Human Need: From Sex Selection to Enhancement; Chapter 6 EPO and Public Bioethics: Germ Line Interventions in Human Embryos, the Problem of Commodification and the Question of Incentives; Part III Patents, Global Trade and Bioethics: Rethinking Good Governance; Chapter 7 TRIPs, Access to Medicines and the Global Governance of Patents: Cultivating Humanity and Equity; Chapter 8 Global Health Networks and Discursive Legitimacy; Chapter 9 Some Reflections on Good Patent Governance; Chapter 10 Conclusions: A Discursive Analysis of Patents;