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Introduction: The Bauplan / Joseph Henry Vogel -- Looking the gorgon in the face : the ubiquity of propaganda and the business of debate / Joseph Henry Vogel -- Museums as venues for polemics : exhibits tha provoke controversy, argumentation or refutation / María José Moreno Viqueira -- The museum as a vehicle for considered judgments on access and benefit sharing / Manuel Ruiz -- Clearing the air : applying the intellectual property framework to individual, community, and national rights in the Convention on Biological Diversity / Tomme Young -- The anti-commons threat to farmers' rights : the case of crop germplasm / Stephen B. Brush -- The moral foundation of intellectual property and conservation through access and benefit-sharing / Charles R. McManis -- Conclusions: The nameless interloper in The museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain / Valentina Delich ; translation, Camilo Gomides -- Appendix: The original essay : a proposal based on The tragedy of the commons : the museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain / Joseph Henry Vogel.

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' discusses the issue of intellectual property rights versus the public domain in facilitating access to genetic resources for biotechnology development, through a dialogue between seven fictional scholars and a hilarious octogenarian.