International Law and Indigenous Knowledge : Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine.

In International Law and Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanan argues that Indigenous knowledge has posed a crisis of legitimacy for the intellectual property system that calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction.

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Main Author: Oguamanam, Chidi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Edition:2nd ed.
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520 |a In International Law and Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanan argues that Indigenous knowledge has posed a crisis of legitimacy for the intellectual property system that calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 General Introduction and Overview -- Knowledge: The New Frontier of the Indigenous Question -- Intellectual Property and the Search for Equity -- Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy and the Socio-Cultural Imperative -- Traditional and Western Scientific Knowledge Systems -- Science as a Site of Contest -- Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge -- Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy -- Applicability of Intellectual Property Rights to Traditional Knowledge -- Overview -- 2 Conceptual Perspectives on Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in International Law -- Biodiversity -- Defining and Understanding the Concept -- The Essence of Plant Biodiversity -- Bioresources: Global 'Assets' in Southern Borders -- Biodiversity in Crisis -- The Diversity of Biodiversity Benefits -- Biodiversity: Two Concepts of Values -- Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Colonialism and Epistemic Conflict -- Therapeutic Uses of Plants: A Glimpse of Indigenous Epistemic Holism -- Indigenous Knowledge as Marginalized Knowledge -- Intellectual Property Rights -- The Concept of Intellectual Property -- International Law Relating to Indigenous Peoples -- The Indigenous Question in International Law: A Historical Perspective -- Indigenous Activism -- State Practice: Sanctioning Indigenous Claims -- International Law on Indigenous Peoples: Publicists' Perspectives -- 3 International Law and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy -- Indigenous Knowledge as Part of International Law on Indigenous Peoples -- General Conceptual Analysis -- Indigenous Knowledge in the Fourth and Third Worlds -- Indigenous Knowledge under the United Nations Framework -- Indigenous Knowledge under the ILO Convention No. 169 (1989). 
505 8 |a The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 -- Indigenous Knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity -- The United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- United Nations Bodies: WIPO, UNESCO, and UNDP -- Draft Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous Heritage -- OAS Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Other Initiatives -- Regional Trends -- The Protection of Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge -- Traditional Therapy under the ILO Convention No. 169 (1989) -- Traditional Therapy under the United Nations Draft Declaration -- Traditional Therapy under the OAS Draft Declaration -- Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge under the WHO -- WHO Policy on Traditional Medicine -- State Practice and Traditional Medicine -- Industrialized Countries -- Developing Countries -- Perspective on the Worldwide Status of Traditional Medicine -- The WHO and Traditional Medicine: Of Timidity and Scientific Hegemony -- Summary -- 4 The Sociocultural Context of Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy -- Traditional Therapy and Western Biomedicine: The Paradigmatic Divergence -- Between the Biomedical and the Psychosocial -- Theories of Illness -- The Central Role of Plants in Traditional Therapy -- Plant Therapy: Some Biblical Insight -- Plants under Unani Medical Tradition -- Plant Medicine in Ayurveda -- Plants in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Plant Medicine in Native American Therapeutic Traditions -- Plant Medicine in Humoral Therapy in Latin America -- Plants in African Therapeutic Systems -- Summary -- Traditional Therapeutic Systems: Beyond Active Substances -- The Social Position of Traditional Healers -- Power and Environment: The Healer and the Sick -- Two Kinds of Therapeutic Environment -- The Performance of Healing -- Words as Performance -- Transcendental Dimension -- Multivalence of Traditional Therapeutic Methods. 
505 8 |a The Scientific Question and Situational Logic -- Summary -- 5 Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy: The Filtration of Indigenous Knowledge -- Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Traditional Medicine -- Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Medicine in Key Instruments -- Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Medicine under the WHO and the WIPO -- Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional (Medicinal) Knowledge: The Demand of Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations -- The Intellectual Property Debate -- Conceptual Objections -- The Communality Argument -- Legal Personality -- The Public Domain / Common Heritage Argument -- Other Considerations of a Practical Nature -- Patents and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy: Investigating the Trade-offs -- The Nature of Patents -- Plants as Patentable Subject Matter -- Tests of Patentability and Products of Nature Rhetoric -- The Case for Patentability of TKPT -- Patentability of TKPT: The Epistemic Cul-de-sac -- Biopiracy Patents: Beyond Economic Considerations -- Beyond Patenting: Folkloric Protection for TKPT -- Intellectual Property at the Periphery: Geographical Indications -- Patenting TKPT: Some Reflections -- On Self-Determination -- On Medical Pluralism -- 6 Toward a Cross-cultural Dialogue on Intellectual Property Rights -- Appraising the Discussion -- Indigenous Knowledge: Economic Reward versus Cultural Integrity -- Access Regimes -- Article 8(j): Beyond Access to Cultural Integrity -- Indigenous Knowledge: Legal Empowerment from Within -- The CBD and WIPO: Embracing the Cross-cultural Dialogue -- The COP and Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j) -- The WIPO's GIPI Program and the Inter-governmental Committee -- Knowledge Protection outside the Regime of Conventional Intellectual Property Rights. 
505 8 |a The Cross-cultural Approach as a Framework -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 
650 0 |a Intellectual property (International law) 
650 0 |a Traditional ecological knowledge  |x Law and legislation. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |x Legal status, laws, etc. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |x Intellectual life. 
650 0 |a Traditional medicine. 
650 0 |a Ethnobotany. 
650 0 |a Ethnopharmacology. 
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650 7 |a Ethnopharmacology  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Indigenous peoples  |x Legal status, laws, etc.  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Intellectual property (International law)  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Traditional ecological knowledge  |x Law and legislation  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Traditional medicine  |2 fast 
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