Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900
The Latin American branch of Secrets to Patents is launching a new seminar series dedicated to discussions on health, traditional knowledge, and heritage. The presentations and discussions will be in Portuguese and Spanish. Sign up via the link: https://forms.gle/x4VBCPJ16VqrFABQA
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The Research Environment Secrets to Patents investigates the long-term history of how life-saving and health-improving medicines became for-profit commodities from 1500 to 1900. Focusing on the Atlantic Colonial Nexus, the project’s team will investigate the strategies that different historical agents used to claim ownership of medicinal knowledge.
Secrets to Patents has been generously funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2030) and hosted at Lund University (SE), in collaboration with the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen (DK) and the History Department of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (BR).
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