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Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era

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Description for Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era Paperback. Through an examination of the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicine in Central America, this book considers whether health is a human right or a commodity, and whether human rights advocacy is an antidote to the advance of neoliberal social policy or the very vehicle through which it now advances. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JPVH; KCLT; LNR; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.

Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political battles have developed across the region.

Looking at events in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Angelina Godoy argues that human rights advocates need to approach intellectual property law as more than simply a roster of regulations. IP represents the cutting edge of a global tendency to value ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785617
SKU
V9780804785617
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About Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights and founding director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Reviews for Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
"Godoy grounds her inquiry on the interface between transnational human rights advocates and the socio-political context, the health system, and local activists . . . This book is a dense, provocative, and detailed account of the failure of transnational human rights activists to persuade governments to rebuff the intellectual property protections inserted in the Central American Free Trade Agreement."
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