Of Medicines and Markets Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era

Name: Of Medicines and Markets Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
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ISBN: 9780804785617

ISBN-10: 0804785619

ISBN-13: 9780804785617

Edition: 2013

Authors: Angelina Snodgrass Godoy

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Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political battles have developed across the region.Looking at events in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Angelina Godoy argues that human rights advocates need to approach intellectual property law as more than simply a roster of regulations. IP represents the cutting edge of a global tendency to value all things in market terms: Life forms—from…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Foreword


Acronyms and Abbreviations


Acknowledgments



Trading Health for Wealth



A Primer on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property



Market Failures and Fallacies



Local Politics, Strange Bedfellows, and the Challenges of Human Rights Mobilization



Patient Advocacy and Access to Medicines Litigation



Writing Globalizationï¿½s Rule Book


Notes


References


Index