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List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Health Chapter 1: The Life of Health Chapter 2: The Health of Intellectual Property Part 2: Rights Chapter 3: The Human Right to Health Chapter 4: Health, Development, Culture Chapter 5: Patent Morality Part 3: Life Chapter 6: The Technology of Life Chapter 7: Life?€?s Libraries Part 4: Access Chapter 8: Access Chapter 9: Use Conclusion to the First Edition Conclusion to the Second Edition Bibliography Index
About the author
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.
Summary
Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.
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Review of the 1st Edition: '...Professor Gibson brings a distinctly legal perspective to bear on the critical issue of intellectual property and medicines. Yet, more importantly, she frames the analysis in the context of the historical and cultural development of the western democratic notion of "property", "ownership" and "use".' European Journal of Public Health
