Table of Contents

 

 

 

Introduction

Patents, Profits, and the High Cost of Living

1

Chapter 1

A New Lease on Life

11

Chapter 2

The High Cost of living

52

Chapter 3

Hitting the Brakes

94

Chapter 4

Poison Pills

128

Chapter 5

Gene Patents

180

Chapter 6

Liquid Assets, Lethal Risks

206

Chapter 7

A Traffic in Tissues

234

Chapter 8

Biocolonialism

265

Chapter 9

The Laboratory of the West

300

Epilogue

Back to the Future?

326

 

Acknowledgments

347

 

Notes

351

 

Bibliography

391

 

Permissions Acknowledgments

409

 

Index

411