Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Issues -- The Current Conundrum -- The Objects of Our Study -- The Legal Framework So Far -- The Property Paradigm -- The Intellectual Property Paradigm -- The Commons Paradigm -- Special Challenges of DNA -- Property and Parts -- Autonomy, Individuality, and Personhood -- Economics and the Marketplace for Genes -- Ethics and Method -- An Outline for the Investigation -- The Challenge Ahead -- Chapter 2 Ethics and Ontology: A Brief Discourse on Method -- Approaches to the Problem -- Groundedness as an Empirical Measure -- A Case in Point -- The Groundedness of Ownership of Moveables -- So Where Does Ontology Get Us? -- Chapter 3 The Science of Genes -- Central Dogma of Biology -- Classical Genetics -- Modern Genetics -- How Genes Work -- Controlling the Genome -- Personalized Medicine -- Information, Structure, and Function: Individuals and "Persons" -- "Expression" is not an Expression -- Genes and "Environment" -- Information and Individuals -- Personhood and "Me-ness" -- Chapter 4 DNA, Species, Individuals, and Persons -- Individuals and Species -- Commonalities among Species -- Individuals within Species -- Individual Histories and Individual Genomes -- The Social and Legal Importance of Individuality -- Human Individuals, Persons, and Rights -- Implications for Justice -- Chapter 5 Legal Dimensions in Gene Ownership -- The Role of the Law -- Autonomy and Property -- Early Cases on Microorganisms and Animals: The Slope Toward Human Patents -- Patenting Animals -- Renting Your Spleen? -- The Move to Human Gene Patents -- Patenting Diseases -- Catalona and Beyond -- What is so Strange about the Law of Bodies and Tissues? -- The Law of Personal Identity.

Reconciling the Law with Reality -- Chapter 6 BRCA1 and 2: The Myriad Case and Beyond -- The BRCA1&2 Gene Patents -- Benson, Flook, and Diehr -- New Rulings on Section 101 -- The Myriad Case in Brief -- Why Myriad Matters -- Is cDNA Properly Patent-Eligible? -- Chapter 7 Are Genes Intellectual Property? -- The Historical Development of Intellectual Property -- The Theory of Intellectual Property -- Problem Areas in Intellectual Property Theory and Practice -- Do Genes Fit any Current Notion of Intellectual Property? -- What CAN Properly Be Patented? -- Genes and the Law: Where Do They Fit? -- Chapter 8 DNA and The Commons -- Current Schemes of Intellectual Property Protection -- Existing Forms of Property Protection -- Brute Facts and Genes -- Unique Property Protection for DNA? -- The Notion of the Commons -- The Commons as a Choice -- The Commons by Necessity -- DNA as a Commons -- Is DNA More like Ideas or Radio Spectra? -- Chapter 9 Pragmatic Considerations of Gene Ownership -- The Evolution of the Institutions of Science -- The Big Business of Biotech, and the Cornucopia of the HGP -- The Marketplace of Genes -- Open Source and Free Markets -- Open Source in Biology -- National Regulation of Gene Markets -- DNA Wants to be Free -- Chapter 10 Nature, Genes, and the Scientific Commons: A Social Ontology of Invention -- Introduction -- Products of Nature and Inventiveness -- Why Not Patent Everything, Including Discoveries? -- Discovery Is Not Invention -- Discovery, Invention, and Justice -- Chapter 11 So, Who Owns You? Some Conclusions About Genes, Property, and Personhood -- Errors in the Law -- Problems of Personhood -- Other Potential Persons and Property Issues -- Our Common Genetic Heritage: What Does It Mean? -- Your Genome/Our Genome -- Future Issues: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3.

Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Index -- EULA.