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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2006.
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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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