TY - JOUR
KW - intellectual property rights
KW - ethnobotany
AU - A. B. Cunningham
AB - Pharmaceutical companies are turning to indigenous knowledge-based forms of healing for new medicinal plants and they are walking away with million dollar deals. In general, very little money goes back to the communities and the healers who shared their knowledge. There are many different ideas as to how the money should be distributed. It is felt that the role of bridging the gap between the traditional communities and the pharmaceutical companies should be filled with anthropologists and enthnobiologists. They can facilitate a partnership agreement that will benefit both the indigenous community and industrial society.
AN - 91-02289
BT - Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
DA - 09/1991
IS - 3
LA - English
N2 - Pharmaceutical companies are turning to indigenous knowledge-based forms of healing for new medicinal plants and they are walking away with million dollar deals. In general, very little money goes back to the communities and the healers who shared their knowledge. There are many different ideas as to how the money should be distributed. It is felt that the role of bridging the gap between the traditional communities and the pharmaceutical companies should be filled with anthropologists and enthnobiologists. They can facilitate a partnership agreement that will benefit both the indigenous community and industrial society.
PY - 1991
SP - 4
EP - 8
ST - Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity
T2 - Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
TI - Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity: Global commons or regional heritage?
UR - http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/indigenous-knowledge-and-biodiversity-global-commons-or-regional-heritag
VL - 15
ER -