The biotech and pharmaceutical industries and indigenous medicine : conquest or complementarity?

This thesis explores the relationship between the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and indigenous medicine, with specific focus on the appropriation of traditional knowledge and the prospecting of plant materials and human cell lines. The exploitation of indigenous peoples is based in an...

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Main Author: Otmar, Louise
Format: Others
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2253/1/MQ83829.pdf
Otmar, Louise <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Otmar=3ALouise=3A=3A.html> (2003) The biotech and pharmaceutical industries and indigenous medicine : conquest or complementarity? Masters thesis, Concordia University.