Human Rights and the WTO: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines (International Economic Law Series)

by HolgerHestermeyer (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $55.75

  This book examines one of the most controversial aspects of the world trading system: patents and access to medication and offers approaches to tackle the issue of how to better accommodate human rights in the trading system.

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $192.22

  Examines one of the controversial aspects of the world trading system: patents and access to medication. This book looks at the claim that international trade law imposes rules that result in exclusive rights of pharmaceutical companies and high prices of medication, preventing access to medication for diseases such as AIDS, anthrax, or bird flu.