Access to medicine in the global economy : international agreements on patents and related rights /

The issue of how patents impact medicine has increased in significance within the last decade. The book provides an explanation of the current international infrastructure and explains how competing patent perspectives play a thus far unacknowledged role in promoting distortion and confusion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ho, Cynthia M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:The issue of how patents impact medicine has increased in significance within the last decade. The book provides an explanation of the current international infrastructure and explains how competing patent perspectives play a thus far unacknowledged role in promoting distortion and confusion.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 410 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199750184
0199750181
9780199894536
0199894531