Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, where she researches and teaches in intellectual property law and policy, public health and traditional knowledge. Her other books include Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture (2006) and Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade and Protection of Traditional Knowledge (2005) and the recent edited collection, Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development (2008). Johanna Gibson is also the General Editor of the Ashgate specialist series, Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Health: The life of health; The health of intellectual property. Part II Rights: The human right to health; Health, development, culture; Patent morality. Part III Life: The technology of life; Life's libraries. Part IV Access: Access and trust; Use; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index