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Table of Contents

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

Reinventing Hoodia

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    Publisher: University of Washington Press
    Publication Date: 18/09/2017
    ISBN13: 9780295742182, 978-0295742182
    ISBN10: 0295742186
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    Gender studies, gender groups Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents

    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

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