Title When nature goes public : the making and unmaking of bioprospecting in Mexico / Cori Hayden

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2003]

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Description 1 online resource Series In-formation series In-formation series. Contents Ch. 1. Interests and Publics: On (Ethno)science and Its Accountabilities -- Ch. 2. Neoliberalism's Nature -- Ch. 3. Prospecting in Mexico: Rights, Risk, and Regulation -- Ch. 4. Market Research: When Local Knowledge Is Public Knowledge -- Ch. 5. By the Side of the Road: The Contours of a Field Site -- Ch. 6. The Brine Shrimp Assay: Signs of Life, Sites of Value -- Ch. 7. Presumptions of Interest -- Ch. 8. Remaking Prospecting's Publics Summary 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 tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise - and the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific research, she provides a key to understanding which people and plants are included in the promises of "selling biodiversity to save it"--And which are not. And she considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the logics of intellectual property. Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and North-South relations, When Nature Goes Public charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures. -- from back cover Analysis Aylward, Bruce Berlin, Brent Clifford, James Cox, Paul Delgado, Guillermo Flitner, Michael Fuente, Macrina GATT/WTO Global Exchange Hersch Martínez, Paul Human Genome Project Janzen, Dan Kohler, Robert Linares, Edelmira Lozoya, Xavier Malthusianism Monsanto Morales, Gustavo NIH (National Institutes of Health) PROMAYA Parry, Bronwyn Reid, Walter Strathern, Marilyn Timmermann, Barbara aspirin biopiracy ecological economics economic botany neem patent patrimony Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and index Subject Medicinal plants -- Mexico Botanical drug industry -- Mexico Ethnoscience -- Mexico Intellectual property -- Mexico Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexico Plant diversity conservation -- Mexico Germplasm resources conservation -- Mexico Botanical drug industry Ethnoscience Germplasm resources conservation Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. Intellectual property Medicinal plants Plant diversity conservation Umweltethik Nachhaltigkeit Bioprospektion Inheemse volken. Intellectuele eigendom. Volksgeneeskunde. Plantaardige geneesmiddelen. Geneeskrachtige planten. Plantes -- Conservation des ressources -- Mexique. Diversite vegetale -- Mexique. Ethnosciences -- Mexique. Plantes medicinales -- Mexique. Mexico Mexiko Form Electronic book LC no. 2003043339 ISBN 9780691216362 0691216363

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