Patenting life
Subtitle: foundations of the Brazil-United States controversy
By: [Marília Bernardes Marques].
Series: Health policy series ;; n. 13; Série Política de saúde ;; no. 13.
Publisher: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center for Scientific and Technological Information, Nucleus for Science and Technology Studies
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Description: The author discuss how and why the current international intellectual property rights trends observed in the pharmaceutical sector, where the U.S. hegemony is evident, express a double and contradictory rationale: on one hand, private appropriation in the market globalization process; on the the other hand, public disclousure vis-a-vis  control over scientific information.