Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health

Edited by Kenneth C. Shadlen, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Samira Guennif, Université Paris 13, France, Alenka Guzmán, Autonomous Metropolitan University-Iztapalapa, Mexico and Narayanan Lalitha, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India

Contents:

1. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals: Meeting the Challenges to Addressing Health Gaps in the New International Environment
Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán and N. Lalitha

2. Pharmaceutical Production and Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa
Heinz Klug

3. Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines: Paradoxes in Moroccan Policy
Gaëlle Krikorian

4. The Invisible Threat: Trade, Intellectual Property, and Pharmaceutical Regulations in Colombia
Tatiana Andia

5. The Challenges of Constructing Pharmaceutical Capabilities and Promoting Access to Medicines in Mexico under TRIPS
Alenka Guzmán

6. Corporate Power and State Resistance: Brazil’s Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for its National AIDS Program
Matthew Flynn

7. The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies
Kenneth C. Shadlen

8. Pharmaceutical Patent Policy in Developing Countries: Learning from the Canadian Experience
Jean-Frédéric Morin and Mélanie Bourassa Forcier

9. Access to Indian Generic Drugs: Emerging Issues
N. Lalitha

10. Sufficient but Expensive Drugs: A Double-Track System that Facilitated Supply Capability in China
Mariko Watanabe and Luwen Shi

11. Access to Essential Drugs in Thailand: Intellectual Property Rights and Other Institutional Matters Affecting Public Health in a Developing Country
Samira Guennif

12. The TRIPS Agreement and Health Innovation in Bangladesh
Padmashree Gehl Sampath

Index