Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health by Gibson, Johanna;

Short description:

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Long description:

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health. The central question of trust and the beneficial interests of society in the use of products of intellectual property, particularly in the fulfilment of the right to access medicinal products, emerge as key to achieving meaningful access to knowledge in health and medicine and the realization of relevant and equitable use of the benefits of scientific research in all societies. This second edition ensures that the book continues to be a rigorous academic resource in current debates in intellectual property aspects of medicine, and to characterise these debates through new and updated examples, as well as to ensure the accuracy of the book with respect to significant developments, in particular, gene-related inventions and associated litigation, stem cell research, traditional knowledge and access and benefit-sharing, as well as detailed discussions of particularly significant litigation, including Novartis v India. In this way, it continues to capture the full breadth of issues through strategic examination of particular cases. The updating ensures that recent and current issues are examined and analysed and that all law remains current and accurate, together with the revision of the resource list so that the book can act as a current research tool in these areas and indicate places to obtain further materials in the historical and legal precursors to these debates.

 'Professor Gibson's second edition of "Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health" like the first edition is a wide ranging and detailed discussion of the legal and moral aspects of health policy that has been brought up to date. The focus is on international treaties, morality and intellectual property law. The conflict between incentives to invent new medical devices and medicines and the right of people to have access to such technologies is thoroughly reviewed and updated.'

Martin J. Adelman, George Washington University Law School, USA

'Professor Gibson makes a very significant contribution to the literature on the intellectual property aspects of medicine and health, focussing upon gene and pharmaceutical patenting, framed by an ethical and sociological perspective. It importantly locates these perspectives within the broader context of the internationally mandated "right to health".'

Michael Blakeney, University of Western Australia

'In the second edition of "Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health" Professor Gibson offers a deep, extensive and thought provoking analysis of the ever controversial relationship between patents and health. The book provides an ideal source for anyone seeking a current and thorough review of the tensions that surround the subject and a fuller understanding of the nature of and background to the various differing perspectives that are held on it. '

Trevor Cook, Partner Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, USA

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Health Chapter 1: The Life of Health Chapter 2: The Health of Intellectual Property Part 2: Rights Chapter 3: The Human Right to Health Chapter 4: Health, Development, Culture Chapter 5: Patent Morality Part 3: Life Chapter 6: The Technology of Life Chapter 7: Life?€?s Libraries Part 4: Access Chapter 8: Access Chapter 9: Use Conclusion to the First Edition Conclusion to the Second Edition Bibliography Index