Book Reviews

Abstract

Brian Davern Wright of the University of California, Berkeley reviews “Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era”, by Angelina Snodgrass Godoy. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores intellectual property and human rights in the free trade era. Discusses trading health for wealth; a primer on pharmaceutical intellectual property; market failures and fallacies; local politics, strange bedfellows, and the challenges of human rights mobilization; patient advocacy and access to medicines litigation; and writing globalization's rule book. Godoy is Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington.”