Reinventing Hoodia

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Laura A. Foster is an assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University-Bloomington with affiliations in African studies and the Maurer School of Law. She is also a senior researcher with the Intellectual Property Unit at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law.

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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