Introduction; Part 1 Political Regulations and Institutions; Chapter 1 Biobank Governance: Property, Privacy and Consent, Roger Brownsword; Chapter 2 Population Genetic Databases: A New Challenge to Human Rights, Roberto Andorno; Chapter 3 Intellectual Property Rights and the Right to Health: Considering the Case of Access to Medicines, Alyna C. Smith; Chapter 4 International Protection of Human Genetic Data The UNESCO Declaration on Human Genetic Data and the Possible Impact on Genetic Governance Models, Tobias Schulte in den Baumen; Chapter 5 TRIPS Jurisprudence in the Balance: Between the Realist Defense of Policy Space and a Shared Utilitarian Ethic, Antony S. Taubman; Part 2 Science and Intellectual Property; Chapter 6 Exclusive Property Rights in the Biosciences: An Ethical Discussion, Christian Lenk; Chapter 7 Enclosing the Knowledge Commons: Patenting Genes for Disease Risk and Drug Response at the UniversityIndustry Interface, Bryn Williams-Jones, Vural Ozdemir; Chapter 8 Reconceptualizing Genetics: Challenges to Traditional Medical Ethics, Heather Widdows; Chapter 9 Lack of Access to Essential Drugs: A Story of Continuing Global Failure, with Particular Attention to the Role of Patents, Sigrid Sterckx; Chapter 10 Out of Touch: From Corporeal to Incorporeal, or Moore Revisited, Nils Hoppe; Part 3 Distribution, Licensing and Protection of Intellectual Property; Chapter 11 Knowledge and Information Private Property or Common Good? A Global Perspective, Rainer Kuhlen; Chapter 12 The Limit of Balancing Interests Through Copyright Levies, Lucie Guibault; Chapter 13 The Institutional Nature of the Patent System: Implications for Bioethical Decision-Making, Sivaramjani Thambisetty; Chapter 14 Why People Give Information Freely: Internet Architecture and the Rebirth of Folkloric Culture, John Cahir;