L6 Industry Studies: Manufacturing

摘要

Adusei, Poku. Patenting of Pharmaceuticals and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Laws, Institutions, Practices, and Politics. New York and Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. Pp. xx, 294. ISBN 978-3-642-32514-4. Examines the need to reconstruct the globalized patent regime to address public health and development challenges that confront the citizens of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the threats posed by HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis epidemics. Discusses exploring the conceptual domains for patent discourse in global trade relations; evolutionary trajectories of patents and the politics of exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa; the "myth" of patent justifications-triumph and failure dichotomy in the North and South; patent regulatory and institutional mechanisms in sub-Saharan Africa; pharmaceutical patents, the right to health, and constitutional supremacy in sub-Saharan Africa; and pharmaceutical patents and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. Adusei is Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Land Law, Company Law, and Private International Law at the University of Ghana, Legon. Index.