Ebook: Of medicines and markets : intellectual property and human rights in the free trade era
Author: Godoy Angelina Snodgrass
- Tags: Drug accessibility Central America Pharmaceutical policy Right to health Intellectual property Drugs Patents Free trade Human rights Health Services Accessibility Preparations and Narcotic Control Rights Property BUSINESS ECONOMICS Industries General
- Series: Stanford studies in human rights.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Central America.
- Language: English
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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 Read more...