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What happens when people hand over natural resources for scientific research or commercial use? And what should happen? This book raises fundamental questions about benefit sharing to provide orientation for policymakers, lawyers, ethicists and lobbyists on a topic of global concern.
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The growing critique of such activities is summarized in Shiva (1998).
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The American company Bioserve, for instance, holds samples from ‘120,000 patients on four continents’ (BioServe n.d.).
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This latest term for the human right to health evolved from earlier formulations (WMA n.d.).
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Schroeder, D., Lucas, J.C. (2013). Benefit Sharing: From Biodiversity to Human Genetics—An Introduction. In: Schroeder, D., Cook Lucas, J. (eds) Benefit Sharing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6205-3_1
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