When Nature Goes Public The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

Name: When Nature Goes Public The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico
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ISBN: 9780691095578

ISBN-10: 0691095574

ISBN-13: 9780691095578

Edition: 2004

Authors: Cori Hayden

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Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for medicinal plants and local knowledge. Cori Hayden…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.94" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Introduction



Neoliberal Natures



Interests and Publics: On (Ethno)science and Its Accountabilities



Neoliberalism's Nature



Prospecting in Mexico: Rights, Risk, and Regulation



Public Prospecting



Market Research: When Local Knowledge Is Public Knowledge



By the Side of the Road: The Contours of a Field Site



HREE: Prospecting'S Publics



The Brine Shrimp Assay: Signs of Life, Sites of Value



Presumptions of Interest



Remaking Prospecting's Publics


Notes


Bibliography


Index