Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Patent Publics, Patent Cultures -- PART 1: CONTEXT -- 1 The Legal Framework Surrounding Patents for Living Materials -- PART 2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS -- 2 Life as Chemistry or Life as Biology? An Ethic of Patents on Genetically Modified Organisms -- 3 The Right to Development, African Countries and the Patenting of Living Organisms: A Human Rights Dilemma -- PART 3: MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- 4 The Genetic Sequence Right: A Sui Generis Alternative to the Patenting of Biological Materials -- 5 Forfeited Consent: Body Parts in Eminent Domain -- PART 4: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE -- 6 Beyond 'Protection': Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems in Thailand -- 7 Plant Genetic Resources and the Associated Traditional Knowledge: Does the Distinction between Higher and Lower Life Forms Matter? -- PART 5: AGRICULTURE -- 8 Analysis of Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Nepal -- 9 Is More Less? An Evolutionary Economics Critique of the Economics of Plant Breeds' Rights -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.