The political economy of pharmaceutical patents : US sectional interests and the African Group at the WTO / Sherry S Marcellin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcellin, Sherry S., author.

Series:

Global health.

Global Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Patent laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fresh, multidisciplinary and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GAT/WTO, utilizing a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE). Marcellin addresses the role of the transnational drug industry in the making of the patent provisions in the original TRIPS Agreement, and consequently the role of the African Group at the WTO in the remaking of patent provisions.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Explaining 'Who Gets What' inInternational Trade Decision-Making; 2 North/South Controversies in the TRIPS Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Domination?; 3 Consensus Formation in the TRIPS Negotiations: Agendas, Agents and Turning Points; 4 Legitimacy and the TRIPS Agreement: Globalised Law as 'Consent Without Consent'; 5 The Post-TRIPS Context and the Intensification of a Contested Terrain; Conclusion; List of Interviewees; References; Index

Notes:

"First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-02079-0

1-317-02080-4

1-315-55449-6

1-282-78588-5

9786612785887

1-4094-1215-6

9781315554495

OCLC:

679416628