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Of Medicines and Markets - Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era (Paperback, New)
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Of Medicines and Markets - Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era (Paperback, New)
Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights
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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 all things in market terms: Life forms--from plants to human
genetic sequences--are rendered commodities, and substances
necessary to sustain life--medicines--are restricted to insure
corporate profits. If we argue only over the terms of IP protection
without confronting the underlying logic governing our trade
agreements, then human rights advocates will lose even when they
win.
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