Intellectual property, pharmaceuticals and public health : access to drugs in developing countries / edited by Kenneth C. Shadlen ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization, intellectual property rights, and pharmaceuticals : meeting the challenges to addressing health gaps in the new international environment / N. Lalitha -- Pharmaceutical production and access to essential medicines in South Africa / Heinz Klug -- Intellectual property and access to medicines : paradoxes in Moroccan policy / Gaelle Krikorian -- The invisible threat : trade, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical regulations in Colombia / Tatiana Andia -- The challenges of constructing pharmaceutical capabilities and promoting access to medicines in Mexico under TRIPS / Alenka Guzman -- Corporate power and state resistance : Brazil's use of TRIPS flexibilities for its National AIDS Program / Matthew Flynn -- The politics of patents and drugs in Brazil and Mexico : the industrial bases of health policies / Kenneth C. Shadlen -- Pharmaceutical patent policy in developing countries : learning from the Canadian experience / Melanie Bourassa Forcier -- Access to Indian generic drugs: emerging issues / N. Lalitha -- Sufficient but expensive drugs : a double-track system that facilitated supply capability in China / Luwen Shi -- Access to essential drugs in Thailand : intellectual property rights and other institutional matters affecting public health in a developing country / Samira Guennif -- The TRIPS agreement and health innovation in Bangladesh / Padmashree Gehl Sampath.