How Should the Benefits of Bioprospecting Be Shared?

The search for valuable new products from among the world's stock of natural biological resources is mostly carried out by people from wealthy countries, and mostly takes place in developing countries that lack the research capacity to profit from it. Surely, the indigenous people should receiv...

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Main Author: Millum, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2010
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2010, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-33
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Summary:The search for valuable new products from among the world's stock of natural biological resources is mostly carried out by people from wealthy countries, and mostly takes place in developing countries that lack the research capacity to profit from it. Surely, the indigenous people should receive some compensation from it. But we must build a robust defense for this intuition, rooted in the Western moral traditions that are widely accepted in wealthy countries, if we are to put it into practice and enforce it.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0227