Negotiating health
Subtitle: intellectual property and access to medicines
By: edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey, and David Vivas-Eugui.
Contributors: Roffe, Pedro.; Tansey, Geoff.; Vivas Eugui, David.
Publisher: Earthscan; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Medical policy.; Drugs.; Pharmaceutical industry.; Health services accessibility.; Intellectual property.; Patent laws and legislation.; Drug Industry -- ethics.; Drugs, Essential.; Intellectual Property.; Patents -- ethics.; World Health.
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Paris to Doha : the WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health / Pedro Roffe with Christoph Spennemann and Johanna von Braun; title: The cycle of action and reaction: developments and trends in intellectual property and health / Frederick M. Abbott; title: Ensuring access to medicines in 2005 and beyond / Karin Timmermans; title: Role, perspectives and challenges of the generic pharmaceutical industry in Latin America / Mirta Levis; title: Market concentration of the transnational pharmaceutical industry and the generic industries : trends on mergers, acquisitions and other transactions / Barbara Rosenberg; title: Protecting test data for pharmaceutical and agrochemical products under free trade agreements / Carlos M. Correa; title: Intellectual property, data exclusivity, innovation and market access / Meir Perez Pugatch; title: The international legal status of undisclosed clinical trial data : from private to public goods? / Jerome H. Reichman; title: Data protection : options for implementation / Robert Weissman; title: Advancing public health by other means: using competition policy / Jonathan Berger; title: Product development partnerships on neglected diseases: intellectual property and improving access to pharmaceuticals for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria / Roy Widdus; title: Creating and promoting domestic drug manufacturing capacities : a solution for developing countries? / Joan Rovira; title: Four practical measures to enhance access to medical technologies / James Love; title: Expanding policy options for access to medicines for all / Geoff Tansey.