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Publisher: Journals Gateway
Perspectives on Science (2015) 23 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 2015
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Perspectives on Science (2015) 23 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 February 2015
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During the 1980s and 90s, various branches of the federal government did their best to encourage patenting in general, and genes in particular (Rai 1999 , pp. 77–109; Dutfield 2009 ). The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) have ceded much ground (some might argue too much ground) to the interests of the biotech industry, including Big Pharma and DNA sequencing companies. In a concerted effort to bolster this economic sector a number of curious and indeed alarming decisions have been made. This essay details the story of the interesting decision of the USPTO to grant a patent on a gene, despite the fact the patent holder listed the incorrect sequence in the specification and did not know the most relevant attribute of the gene product, namely that it was a chemokine receptor- CCR5, 1 which is the co-receptor recognized by HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS. We live in an age that some science-technology-and-society (STS) scholars have labeled biocapitalism (for an excellent summary of biocapitalism, see Helmreich 2008 ). Biological entities and processes are commodities, which have their values set by the market.
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Perspectives on Science (2008) 16 (4): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2008
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This article discusses Goethe's theory of color and his (at times vitriolic) diatribes against the Newtonians by situating his work within two contexts, one political and the other intellectual. The political context is Goethe's dismay over the rise of obscurantism, typified by the Illuminati movement of the late eighteenth century, with secrecy and elitism as its hallmarks. The intellectual context is the tradition of German Idealism. He was fundamentally committed to understanding the relationship between the subject, or the investigator of nature (or Naturforscher), and the object, or nature itself. How can a Naturforscher, who is a part of nature, be able to depict it objectively?
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Perspectives on Science (2001) 9 (1): 106–115.
Published: 01 March 2001