Intellectual property and pharmaceutical drugs: an ethical analysis.

Pharmaceutical ethics?

though-or because-they raise more questions than they answer. This multi-authored book is not among them. Early on we are told that its authors are outstanding leaders and thinkers from all segments of health care who will provide a fair and balanced view of the troubled relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and society. Puzzling, I thought: leafing through the list of authors I hadn...

Access to life-saving medicines and intellectual property rights: an ethical assessment.

Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples: A History of the Topic as an Object of Study

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of scholarship around the topic of intellectual property law and indigenous people. Joining together fields as diverse as law, ethnobotany, pharmacology and anthropology, this topic has transformed theory and practice in each of these fields, becoming, for example, an established subfield in the discipline of anthropology, a subject of ethical debat...

حمایت قانونی از ابداعات دارویی در پرتو مطالعه‌ی تطبیقی

Among the challenging issues of intellectual property law, discussed how to support and protect the drug because of its association with health in developing countries of particular importance and significance of the day incidence has been added. Pharmaceutical products, sometimes due to a combination of two or more chemical or combination of two or more existing drugs to create new drug is som...

WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on public health, innovation and intellectual property.

The inaccessibility of medicines in lowand middle-income countries poses serious human rights and developmental challenges for Governments and international organizations, as well as raising grave ethical and human rights questions about the responsibilities of the research and development-based pharmaceutical industry. In response to this human rights and public-health dilemma, there has been ...