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Erschienen in: The Journal of Value Inquiry 3/2017

07.06.2017

The Ethics of Patenting the BRCA Genes for Breast Cancer Research

verfasst von: John Jung Park

Erschienen in: The Journal of Value Inquiry | Ausgabe 3/2017

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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women after heart disease. Both BRCA genes are strongly associated with hereditary breast cancer. Mutated BRCA genes are thought to be responsible for a majority of inherited breast cancer cases. Those with BRCA gene mutations have a high risk of developing breast cancer. This high risk of breast cancer for mutation carriers has led many of them to have prophylactic surgery that removes the breasts. …

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Fußnoten
1
See Supreme Court of the Unites States, Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et al. (Washington, DC, 2013). Accessed April 19, 2015. http://​www.​supremecourt.​gov/​opinions/​12pdf/​12-398_​1b7d.​pdf.
 
2
See Nuffield Council on Bioethics, The Ethics of Patenting DNA (London, England, 2002). Accessed April 19, 2015. http://​nuffieldbioethic​s.​org/​wp-content/​uploads/​2014/​07/​The-ethics-of-patenting-DNA-a-discussion-paper.​pdf; Stephen Crespi, “Patenting and Ethics—A Dubious Connection,” Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society 85 (2003): pp. 31–47.
 
3
See Nuffield Council of Bioethics, ibid.
 
4
See Dianne Nicol, “On the Legality of Gene Patents,” Melbourne University Law Review 29 (2005): p. 822.
 
5
See The European Parliament and of the Council, “Directive 98/44/EC,” Official Journal of the European Communities (1998): p. 218. Accessed April 19, 2015. http://​eur-lex.​europa.​eu/​LexUriServ/​LexUriServ.​do?​uri=​CELEX:​31998L0044:​EN:​HTML.
 
6
See S. Gad, M. Scheuner, S. Pages-Berhouet, V. Caux-Moncautier, A. Bensimon, A. Aurias, M. Pinto, D. Stoppa-Lyonnet, “Identification of a Large Rearrangement of the BRCA1 Gene Using Colour Bar Code on Combed DNA in an American Breast/Ovarian Cancer Family Previously Studied by Direct Sequencing,” Journal of Medical Genetics 38 (2001): p. 388.
 
7
See Nuffield Council of Bioethics, ibid.; Stephen Munzer, “Property, Patents, and Genetic Material,” in Justine Burley and John Harris, eds., A Companion to Genethics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 438–454; Donna Dickenson, “Alternatives to a Corporate Commons: Biobanking, Genetics and Property in the Body,” in Imogen Goold, Kate Greasley, Jonathan Herring, and Loane Skene, eds., Persons, Parts and Property (Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd., 2004), pp. 177–196.
 
8
See Donna Dickenson, ibid., p. 178.
 
9
See John Locke, in C. B. Macpherson, ed., Second Treatise of Government (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, 1980), p. 19.
 
10
I would like to thank Paul Park, Wayne Norman, Suzannah Sorg, Kyung Hee Park, Carlos Mariscal, Eric Silverman, and an anonymous reviewer for The Journal of Value Inquiry for their help with this paper.
 
Metadaten
Titel
The Ethics of Patenting the BRCA Genes for Breast Cancer Research
verfasst von
John Jung Park
Publikationsdatum
07.06.2017
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
The Journal of Value Inquiry / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0022-5363
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0492
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-017-9592-y

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