Incentives for global public health : patent law and access to essential medicines / edited by Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer, and Kim Rubenstein.
Publisher's description: This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses on public health concerns about HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, influenza, and diseases of poverty. The essays explore the diplomatic negotiations and disputes...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : access to essential medicines : public health and international law / Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein
- TRIPS and essential medicines : must one size fit all? Making the WTO responsive to the global health crisis / Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
- The TRIPS waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO / Andrew D. Mitchell and Tania Voon
- Public law challenges to the regulation of pharmaceutical patents in the US bilateral free trade agreements / Hitoshi Nasu
- Global health and development : patents and public interest / Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng
- The Health Impact Fund : better pharmaceutical innovations at much lower price / Thomas Pogge
- The Health Impact Fund : a critique / Kathleen Liddell
- A prize system as a partial solution to the health crisis in the developing world / William W. Fisher and Talha Syed
- Innovation and insufficient evidence : the case for a WTO-WHO agreement on health technology safety and cost-effectiveness evaluation / Thomas Faunce
- Opening the dam : patent pools, innovation, and access to essential medicines / Dianne Nicol and Jane Nielsen
- Open source drug discovery : a revolutionary paradigm or a Utopian model? Krishna Ravi Srinivas
- Accessing and benefit sharing avian influenza viruses through the World Health Organization : a CBD and TRIPS compromise thanks to Indonesia's sovereignty claim? / Charles Lawson and Barbara Ann Hocking
- The Lazarus effect : the (RED) campaign and creative capitalism / Matthew Rimmer
- Beyond TRIPS : the role of non-state actors and access to essential medicines / Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky
- Securing health through rights / Katharine G. Young
- 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
- Tipping point : Thai compulsory licenses redefine essential medicines debate / Jonathan Burton-MacLeod.