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Title Balancing wealth and health : the battle over intellectual property and access to medicines in Latin America / edited by Rochelle Dreyfuss, César Rodríguez-Garavito
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Law and global governance series
Law and global governance.
Contents Cover -- Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Battle over Intellectual Property Laws and Access to Medicines in Latin America: A Primer on Global Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, and Political Contestation -- I. Global Administrative Law: Potential and Challenges -- II. Contesting Transnational Regulation: The Political Field
""III. Intellectual Property as a Site of Transnational Regulation and Contestation""""A. The Regulation and Administration of Global Intellectual Property""; ""B. The TRIPS Agreement: Overview and Terminology""; ""IV. Historical Background of the Region: Neoliberalism, Neoconstitutionalism, and Institutional Reform (1990�2010)""; ""V. Overview of the Book: Studying Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America. Background and Methods""; ""A. Research Design: Case Studies, Goals, and Methodology""; ""B. Summary of the Case Studies""; ""References""
""PART I: COUNTRY STUDIES""""Chapter 2: The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents""; ""I. Recursivity in the Reform of the Argentine IP Regime""; ""II. Background: The Argentine Pharmaceutical Industry and Market""; ""III. The First Phase of the Domestic Cycle, 1989�1995""; ""IV. The Politics of Domestic Enactment: Actors and Mechanisms""; ""A. Actors""; ""B. Mechanisms""; ""V. The Politics of Implementation, 1996�2002""; ""A. Intervention by Congress: Interpreting TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Initiatives""
""B. The Fight over Implementation Moves to the Courts and INPI""""VI. The New IP Legislation at the Dispute Settlement Body Interface""; ""VII. Implementation Continues: Global Reframing and the Domestic Crisis, 2002�2010""; ""A. The Crisis and the Rise of a National Policy on Medicines (PNM)""; ""B. Argentina�s Role in New Transnational IP Ventures""; ""C. Actors and Mechanisms in the Implementation of the New IP Regime""; ""VIII. Balancing Patent and Health Rights""; ""References""; ""NEWSPAPER ARTICLES""
Chapter 3: Brazil and the Case of Patents and Access to Medicines: A Medical Condition?Introduction -- I. Fulfilling the Constitutional Right to Health: The Case of Access to Medicines -- II. Main Actors and Events Contributing to the Current Legal Approach to Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil -- A. Actors -- B. Government Policies -- III. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: CAFTA, Intellectual Property, and the Right to Health in Central America -- I. Methodology -- II. Pharmaceutical IP Comes to Central America: The IP Ratchet in Action
Summary This title examines the tension between intellectual property law and access to medicine in a set of developing countries caught between their international trade obligations and their commitment to the health of their citizens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pharmaceutical policy -- Latin America
Drug accessibility -- Latin America
Drugs -- Patents
Conflict of laws -- Intellectual property -- Latin America
Legislation, Drug -- Latin America
Health Services Accessibility -- Latin America
Patents as Topic -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Latin America
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- supply & distribution -- Latin America
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Conflict of laws -- Intellectual property
Drug accessibility
Drugs
Pharmaceutical policy
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
Latin America
Genre/Form patents.
Patents
Patents.
Brevets d'invention.
Form Electronic book
Author Dreyfuss, Rochelle Cooper, 1947- editor.
Rodríguez Garavito, César A., editor.
ISBN 9780191664656
0191664650
9780191756283
0191756288