The commercialization of genetic research : ethical, legal, and policy issues / edited by Timothy A. Caulfield and Bryn Williams-Jones.

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

xiv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

"Proceedings of the Second International Conference on DNA Sampling: The Commercialization of Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues, held September 10-13, 1998, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada."

Biotechnology : sovereignty and sharing / Bartha Maria Knoppers -- National policies influencing innovation based on human genetics / Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan -- Transformation of a research platform into commercial products : the impact of United States federal policy on biotechnology / Michael J. Malinowski and Nick Littlefield -- Intellectual property rights and the human genome / Sandy M. Thomas -- Making room : reintegrating basic research, health policy, and ethics into patent law / E. Richard Gold -- Conflict of interest and commercialization of biomedical research : what is the role of research ethics review? / Kathleen Cranley Glass and Trudo Lemmens -- Scientific journals and their authors' financial interests : a pilot study / S. Krimsky ... [et al.] -- The Icelandic health sector database : legal and ethical considerations / Linda Nielsen -- Xenotransplantation : science, risk and international regulatory efforts / Abdallah S. Daar -- Cloning, God, Hitler and mad scientists : arguments used by the public in the cloning debate on the Internet / Darren Shickle -- Patients' and professionals' views on autonomy, disability, and "discrimination" : results of a 36-nation survey / Dorothy C. Wertz -- Marketing and fear mongering : time to try private genetic services? / Michael M. Burgess.

Includes bibliographical references and index.