Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction: Patents - An Ethical Crisis
• 2. The Role of Patents in History
• 3. The Myth of Patents
• 4. Threats to Biodiversity
• 5. Biopiracy
• 6. Can Seed Be Owned?
• 7. Profiteering from Disease
• 8. Democracy or Dictatorship?
• 9. The Way Forward
• References
• Index

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Recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) and of the Earth Day Award

About the Author

VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization, recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) and of the Earth Day Award, she is the author of several influential books, including: Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind, Biopiracy, and Stolen Harvest, all published by Zed.

Reviews

One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.'
The Guardian

'The South's best known environmentalist.'
New Internationalist

'Vandana Shiva is a leading physicist who abandoned an exciting career in her country's nuclear energy programme because she felt …. that arrogant late 20th century science now poses such a threat to the "web of life" (of which we are merely a part) that a committed scientist should take the side of Nature against further artifice and destruction.'
The Observer

'Vandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power.'
The Progressive