TY - BOOK AU - Parthasarathy,Shobita TI - Patent politics: life forms, markets, and the public interest in the United States and Europe SN - 9780226437859 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - TP248.175 .P35 2017 U1 - 174.2 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Biotechnology KW - Patents KW - Patent laws and legislation KW - United States KW - History KW - Europe KW - Bioethics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index; Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion ER -