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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 410 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199750184 0199750181 9780199894536 0199894531 |