Reinventing Hoodia

Klappentext 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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Laura A. Foster

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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