Of Medicines and Markets - 9780804785600

Of Medicines and MarketsIntellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era\nAuthor(s): Angelina Snodgrass Godoy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804785600, 978-0804785600\nSynopsis\nCentral American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and \""free\"" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political battles have developed across the region.\n\n Looking at events in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Angelina Godoy argues that human rights advocates need to approach intellectual property law as more than simply a roster of regulations. IP represents the cutting edge of a global tendency to value all things in market terms: Life formsfrom plants to hu.