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Using examples from financial markets and modern warfare to the flocking of birds and the swarming of bacteria, this book shows how behavior in such diverse areas as sociology, economics, and the life sciences can be described by closely related models.

Introduction -- Intellectual property in the global economy: high stakes and propaganda warfare -- Intellectual property and regulation theory -- The emergence of modern patent law -- Organic chemistry and the synthetic dyestuff industry -- The pharmaceutical industry -- Biotechnology, genomics and the new life science corporations -- Plant breeding, the seed industry and plant breeders' rights -- Towards a global IP regime: trade and diplomacy -- Forums of resistance? -- Epilogue: the life science industries in a patent-free world

At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a variety of attempts to bring greater awareness to security concerns associated with the life sciences. It identifies lessons from practical initiatives across a wide range of national contexts as well as more general reflections about education and ethics. The eighteen contributors bring together perspectives from a diverse range of fields – including politics, virology, sociology, ethics, security studies, microbiology, and medicine – as well as their experiences in universities, think tanks and government.

In offering their assessment about what must be done and by whom, each chapter addresses a host of challenging practical and conceptual questions. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences will be of interest to those planning and undertaking training activities in other areas. In asking how education and ethics are being made to matter in an emerging area of social unease, it will also be of interest to those with more general concerns about professional conduct.