This book examines critical issues and debates in intellectal property, medicine and health, 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.
The central question of trust and the beneficial interests of society in the use of products of intellectual property, particularly in the fulfilment of the right to access medicinal products, emerges as key to achieving meaningful access to knowledge in health and medicine and the realisation of relevant and equitable use of the benefits of scientific research in all societies.