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Title Incentives for global public health : patent law and access to essential medicines / edited by Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer, and Kim Rubenstein
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Series Connecting international law with public law
Connecting international law with public law.
Contents 8. Innovation and insufficient evidence: the case for a WTO-WHO agreement on health technology safety and cost-effectiveness evaluation Thomas Faunce; Part III. Intellectual Property: 9. Opening the dam: patent pools, innovation, and access to essential medicines Dianne Nicol and Jane Nielsen; 10. Open source drug discovery: a revolutionary paradigm or a utopian model? Krishna Ravi Srinivas; 11. Accessing and benefit sharing avian influenza viruses through the World Health Organisation: a CBD and TRIPS compromise thanks to Indonesia's sovereignty claim? Charles Lawson and Barbara Hocking; 12. The Lazarus effect: the (RED) campaign and creative capitalism Matthew Rimmer; Part IV. Health-Care: 13. Beyond TRIPS: the role of non-state actors and access to essential medicines Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky; 14. Securing health through rights Katharine Young; 15. The role of national laws in reconciling constitutional right to health with TRIPS obligations: an examination of the Glivec patent case in India Rajshree Chandra; 16. Tipping point: Thai compulsory licenses redefine essential medicines debate Jonathan Burton-MacLeod
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: access to essential medicines: public health and international law Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. International Trade: 1. TRIPS and essential medicines: must one size fit all? Making the WTO responsive to the global health crisis Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss; 2. The TRIPS waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon; 3. Public law challenges to the regulation of pharmaceutical patents in the US Bilateral Free Trade Agreements Hitoshi Nasu; 4. Global health and development: patents and public interest Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng; Part II. Innovation: 5. The Health Impact Fund: boosting innovation without obstructing free access Thomas Pogge; 6. The Health Impact Fund: a critique Kathleen Liddell; 7. A prize system as a partial solution to the health crisis in the developing world William W. Fisher and Talha Syed
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Drugs -- Patents.
Patent laws and legislation.
Patents (International law)
Pharmaceutical policy.
Legislation, Drug -- organization & administration.
Drugs, Essential -- supply & distribution.
Health Services Accessibility -- legislation & jurisprudence.
Human Rights.
International Cooperation.
Patents as Topic -- legislation & jurisprudence.
Form Electronic book
Author Pogge, Thomas, 1953-
Rimmer, Matthew.
Rubenstein, Kim.
ebrary, Inc.
ISBN 9780511750786
0511743491 (electronic bk.)
9780511743498 (electronic bk.)