Who Owns Knowledge?: Knowledge and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781138517950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 340 str.

David E. Price; Bernd Weiler

Opis

Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law

Spis treści

Introduction Knowledge and the Law: Can Knowledge be Made Just?; 1: The Social Contexts of Knowledge and the Law; 1: The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information; 2: Scientific Norms, Legal Facts, and the Politics of Knowledge; 3: Is a Just System also Fair? Traversing the Domain of Knowledge, Institutions, Culture, and Ethics 1; 2: Major Social Institutions, Knowledge and the Law; 4: Fundamental Ignorance in the Regulation of Reactor Safety and Flooding: Risks of Knowledge Management in the Risk Society 1; 5: Science in Whose Interest? States, Firms, the Public, and Scientific Knowledge 1; 3: The Social Context of Knowledge and the Law: Who Owns Knowledge; 6: The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law; 7: Inexplicable Law: Legality’s Adventure in Europe *; 8: In Search of the Story; 9: Does the Category of Justice Apply to Drug Research Based on Traditional Knowledge? The Case of the Hoodia Cactus and the Politics of Biopiracy; 10: Profiles and Correlatable Humans; 11: Research Ethics as the Latest Moral Panic in the Governance of Scientific Knowledge; 12: Concluding Observations

O autorze

Bernd Weiler