Access to medicine in the global economy [electronic resource] : international agreements on patents and related rights / Cynthia M. Ho. Ho, Cynthia M. Drugs Patents. K1519.D78 346.0486 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). The issue of how patents impact medicine has increased in significance within the last decade.The book provides an explanation of the current international infrastructure and explains how competing patent perspectives play a thus far unacknowledged role in promoting distortion and confusion. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390124.001.0001 eng