Of medicines and markets : intellectual property and human rights in the free trade era / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.
Material type: TextSeries: Stanford studies in human rightsPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804786577
- 0804786577
- Drug accessibility -- Central America
- Pharmaceutical policy -- Central America
- Right to health -- Central America
- Intellectual property -- Central America
- Drugs -- Patents
- Free trade -- Central America
- Human rights -- Central America
- Health services accessibility
- Human rights
- Intellectual property
- Drugs
- Drug and Narcotic Control
- Health Services Accessibility
- Human Rights
- Intellectual Property
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Central America
- Médicaments -- Accessibilité -- Amérique centrale
- Médicaments -- Brevets d'invention
- Libre-échange -- Amérique centrale
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Amérique centrale
- Propriété intellectuelle -- Amérique centrale
- Médicaments -- Politique gouvernementale -- Amérique centrale
- Droit à la santé -- Amérique centrale
- Services de santé -- Accessibilité
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
- Propriété intellectuelle
- Médicaments
- intellectual property
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General
- Drug accessibility
- Drugs
- Free trade
- Human rights
- Intellectual property
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Right to health
- Central America
- 338.4/7615109728 23
- RA401.C35 G63 2013
- QV 736 DA3
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trading health for wealth -- A primer on pharmaceutical IP -- Market failures and fallacies -- Local politics, strange bedfellows, and the challenges of human rights mobilization -- Patient advocacy and access to medicines litigation -- Writing globalization's rulebook.
"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 plants to human genetic sequences--are rendered commodities, and substances necessary to sustain life--medicines--are restricted to insure corporate profits. If we argue only over the terms of IP protection without confronting the underlying logic governing our trade agreements, then human rights advocates will lose even when they win"--Provided by publisher
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