Of medicines and markets : intellectual property and human rights in the free trade era / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godoy, Angelina Snodgrass.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug accessibility--Central America.

Drug accessibility.

Drugs--Patents.

Drugs.

Free trade--Central America.

Free trade.

Human rights--Central America.

Human rights.

Intellectual property--Central America.

Intellectual property.

Pharmaceutical policy--Central America.

Pharmaceutical policy.

Right to health--Central America.

Right to health.

Physical Description:

xiv, 183 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Trading Health for Wealth

2. A Primer on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property

3. Market Failures and Fallacies

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

5. Patient Advocacy and Access to Medicines Litigation

6. Writing Globalization’s Rule Book

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804786577

0804786577

OCLC:

846551598