Center for Bioethics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
October 1998
Abstract
Glenn McGee argues that the time is now for debating the morality of patenting human genes. In one sense he is surely right. While thousands of patents have been issued or are pending on many gene sequences, public policy with respect to ownership of the human genome is still far from settled. So a debate about the ethics of patenting genes is, if nothing else, timely. In another sense however, Professor McGee is wrong.
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Date Posted: 17 May 2007
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© Cambridge University Press 1998. Reprinted from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Volume 7, Issue 4, October 1998, pages 422-424.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180198004137