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EAN
9780295742182
ISBN
0295742186
Manufacturer
University of Washington Press
Brand
University of Washington Press
Binding
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Book Title
Reinventing Hoodia: Peoples, Plants, and Patents i

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295742186
ISBN-13
9780295742182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239803603

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Reinventing Hoodia : Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Life Sciences / Botany, Naturopathy, Africa / South / General, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies
Type
Textbook
Author
Laura A. Foster
Subject Area
Social Science, Health & Fitness, Science, History
Series
Feminist Technosciences Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-010452
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
615.321
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chronology Introduction Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa 1. Colonial Science and Hoodia as a Scientific Object 2. San Demands for Benefits by Knowing !Khoba as a Plant from Nature 3. South African Scientists and the Patenting of Hoodia as a Molecule 4. Botanical Drug Discovery of Hoodia, from Solid Drug to Liquid Food 5. Hoodia Growers and the Making of Hoodia as a Cultivated Plant Epilogue Implications of a Feminist Decolonial Technoscience Appendix 1: Community Protocols and Research Guidelines for Working with Indigenous Peoples Appendix 2: Strategies for Patent Litigation Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia , Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation.Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently., Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia , Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.
LC Classification Number
RS182.S6F67 2018

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