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The politics of intellectual property rights and access to medicines

"This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital"--Provided by publisher.

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  • ""This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital"--Provided by publisher."@en
  • ""This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital"--Provided by publisher."
  • ""This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital""
  • "This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are about wealth and about who owns and controls knowledge. IPRs ultimately delineate the way in which knowledge -- 'the new capital' -- is created, owned, controlled and diffused both domestically and globally. But knowledge is also a public good in its own right, and impinges on the provision of other public goods such as health and education. It is precisely this dual nature of knowledge both as capital and as a public good that lies at the heart of any IP regime and contests over it. This book focuses primarily on the contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines that emerged in the 1990s and are still unfolding presently. It explores their origins, the actors involved in them and their outcome at the World Trade Organisation and in other fora of global governance. By doing so, it sheds light not only on the complex developments that have so far produced an arrangement that ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, but also to broader concerns that stem from a global governance system that operates without a shared social purpose."
  • ""This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital"--"
  • ""This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been resolved so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital"-"
  • "This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital."@en
  • "'This is a masterly example of how the international political economy in which we all live should be analysed. Muzaka takes the highly technical and deeply complicated issue of intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines and reveals with great acuity and skill the politics that shapes the way decisions are taken and power wielded in this important arena of policy. She has produced a study that is both empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated.'-- Anthony Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK."

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