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International Law and Indigenous Knowledge : Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine.

In International Law and Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanan argues that Indigenous knowledge has posed a crisis of legitimacy for the intellectual property system that calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oguamanam, Chidi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 General Introduction and Overview
  • Knowledge: The New Frontier of the Indigenous Question
  • Intellectual Property and the Search for Equity
  • Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy and the Socio-Cultural Imperative
  • Traditional and Western Scientific Knowledge Systems
  • Science as a Site of Contest
  • Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge
  • Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy
  • Applicability of Intellectual Property Rights to Traditional Knowledge
  • Overview
  • 2 Conceptual Perspectives on Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in International Law
  • Biodiversity
  • Defining and Understanding the Concept
  • The Essence of Plant Biodiversity
  • Bioresources: Global 'Assets' in Southern Borders
  • Biodiversity in Crisis
  • The Diversity of Biodiversity Benefits
  • Biodiversity: Two Concepts of Values
  • Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  • Colonialism and Epistemic Conflict
  • Therapeutic Uses of Plants: A Glimpse of Indigenous Epistemic Holism
  • Indigenous Knowledge as Marginalized Knowledge
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • The Concept of Intellectual Property
  • International Law Relating to Indigenous Peoples
  • The Indigenous Question in International Law: A Historical Perspective
  • Indigenous Activism
  • State Practice: Sanctioning Indigenous Claims
  • International Law on Indigenous Peoples: Publicists' Perspectives
  • 3 International Law and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy
  • Indigenous Knowledge as Part of International Law on Indigenous Peoples
  • General Conceptual Analysis
  • Indigenous Knowledge in the Fourth and Third Worlds
  • Indigenous Knowledge under the United Nations Framework
  • Indigenous Knowledge under the ILO Convention No. 169 (1989).
  • The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21
  • Indigenous Knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • The United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • United Nations Bodies: WIPO, UNESCO, and UNDP
  • Draft Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous Heritage
  • OAS Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Other Initiatives
  • Regional Trends
  • The Protection of Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge
  • Traditional Therapy under the ILO Convention No. 169 (1989)
  • Traditional Therapy under the United Nations Draft Declaration
  • Traditional Therapy under the OAS Draft Declaration
  • Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge under the WHO
  • WHO Policy on Traditional Medicine
  • State Practice and Traditional Medicine
  • Industrialized Countries
  • Developing Countries
  • Perspective on the Worldwide Status of Traditional Medicine
  • The WHO and Traditional Medicine: Of Timidity and Scientific Hegemony
  • Summary
  • 4 The Sociocultural Context of Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy
  • Traditional Therapy and Western Biomedicine: The Paradigmatic Divergence
  • Between the Biomedical and the Psychosocial
  • Theories of Illness
  • The Central Role of Plants in Traditional Therapy
  • Plant Therapy: Some Biblical Insight
  • Plants under Unani Medical Tradition
  • Plant Medicine in Ayurveda
  • Plants in Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Plant Medicine in Native American Therapeutic Traditions
  • Plant Medicine in Humoral Therapy in Latin America
  • Plants in African Therapeutic Systems
  • Summary
  • Traditional Therapeutic Systems: Beyond Active Substances
  • The Social Position of Traditional Healers
  • Power and Environment: The Healer and the Sick
  • Two Kinds of Therapeutic Environment
  • The Performance of Healing
  • Words as Performance
  • Transcendental Dimension
  • Multivalence of Traditional Therapeutic Methods.
  • The Scientific Question and Situational Logic
  • Summary
  • 5 Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy: The Filtration of Indigenous Knowledge
  • Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Traditional Medicine
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Medicine in Key Instruments
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Medicine under the WHO and the WIPO
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional (Medicinal) Knowledge: The Demand of Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations
  • The Intellectual Property Debate
  • Conceptual Objections
  • The Communality Argument
  • Legal Personality
  • The Public Domain / Common Heritage Argument
  • Other Considerations of a Practical Nature
  • Patents and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy: Investigating the Trade-offs
  • The Nature of Patents
  • Plants as Patentable Subject Matter
  • Tests of Patentability and Products of Nature Rhetoric
  • The Case for Patentability of TKPT
  • Patentability of TKPT: The Epistemic Cul-de-sac
  • Biopiracy Patents: Beyond Economic Considerations
  • Beyond Patenting: Folkloric Protection for TKPT
  • Intellectual Property at the Periphery: Geographical Indications
  • Patenting TKPT: Some Reflections
  • On Self-Determination
  • On Medical Pluralism
  • 6 Toward a Cross-cultural Dialogue on Intellectual Property Rights
  • Appraising the Discussion
  • Indigenous Knowledge: Economic Reward versus Cultural Integrity
  • Access Regimes
  • Article 8(j): Beyond Access to Cultural Integrity
  • Indigenous Knowledge: Legal Empowerment from Within
  • The CBD and WIPO: Embracing the Cross-cultural Dialogue
  • The COP and Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j)
  • The WIPO's GIPI Program and the Inter-governmental Committee
  • Knowledge Protection outside the Regime of Conventional Intellectual Property Rights.
  • The Cross-cultural Approach as a Framework
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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