@article{27487,
      recid = {27487},
      author = {Dreyfuss, Rochelle., and Rochelle Dreyfuss,},
      title = {Balancing Wealth and Health : The Battle over Intellectual  Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America.},
      pages = {xvi, 352 pages ;},
      abstract = {This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of  intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines  in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the  contributors look at measures that regulate the  acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on  pharmaceuticals and trade secrets in data concerning them,  along with the conditions under which these rights expire  so as to permit the production of cheaper generic drugs. In  addition, the book includes commentary from scholars in  human rights, international institutions, and transnational  activism.  The case studies presented from 11 Latin  American countries, have many commonalities in terms of  economics, legal systems, and political histories, and yet  they differ in the balance each has struck between  proprietary interests and access concerns. The book  documents this cross-country variation in legal norms and  practice, identifies the factors that have led to  differences in result, and theorizes as to how  differentials among these countries occur and why they  endure within a common transnational regulatory regime.   The work concludes by putting the results of the  investigations into a global administrative law frame and  offers suggestions on institutional mechanisms for  considering the trade-offs between health and wealth.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27487},
}