TY - BOOK
T1 - Incentives for Global Public Health
T2 - Patent law and access to essential medicines
AU - Pogge, Thomas
AU - Rimmer, Matthew
AU - Rubenstein, Kim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2010.
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - 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 in key international fora, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Drawing upon international trade law, innovation policy, intellectual property law, health law, human rights and philosophy, the authors seek to canvass policy solutions which encourage and reward worthwhile pharmaceutical innovation while ensuring affordable access to advanced medicines. A number of creative policy options are critically assessed, including the development of a Health Impact Fund, prizes for medical innovation, the use of patent pools, open-source drug development and forms of 'creative capitalism'.
AB - 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 in key international fora, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Drawing upon international trade law, innovation policy, intellectual property law, health law, human rights and philosophy, the authors seek to canvass policy solutions which encourage and reward worthwhile pharmaceutical innovation while ensuring affordable access to advanced medicines. A number of creative policy options are critically assessed, including the development of a Health Impact Fund, prizes for medical innovation, the use of patent pools, open-source drug development and forms of 'creative capitalism'.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84927064591&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/CBO9780511750786
DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511750786
M3 - Book
SN - 9780521116565
BT - Incentives for Global Public Health
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -