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Biopiracy and the ethics of medical heritage: the case of India's traditional knowledge digital library'.

Abstract

Medical humanities have a central role to play in combating biopiracy. Medical humanities scholars can articulate and communicate the complex structures of meaning and significance which human beings have invested in their ways of conceiving health and sickness. Such awareness of the moral significance of medical heritage is necessary to ongoing legal, political, and ethical debates regarding the status and protection of medical heritage. I use the Indian Traditional Knowledge Digital Library as a case study of the role of medical humanities in challenging biopiracy by deepening our sense of the moral value of medical heritage.

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    • Authors

    Kidd IJ

    Institution

    Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN, UK. i.j.kidd@durham.ac.uk

    Source

    The Journal of medical humanities 33:3 2012 Sep pg 175-83

    MeSH

    Awareness
    Curriculum
    Ethics, Medical
    Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
    Humanities
    Humans
    India
    Intellectual Property
    Libraries, Digital
    Morals

    Pub Type(s)

    Journal Article

    Language

    eng

    PubMed ID

    22610726