TY - BOOK AU - Lee Joo-Young TI - Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property, Innovation and Access to Medicines SN - 9781472410610 (Hardback) U1 - 347.77 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Human rights KW - Right to health KW - Intellectual property KW - Health services accessibility - Law and legislation KW - Medical care - Law and legislation KW - Patient Rights KW - Health Services Accessibility - legislation and jurisprudence KW - Public health safeguards in the TRIPS agreement KW - Human right to access to medicines KW - The right to science and culture KW - Relationship between TRIPS and international human rights law in the context of access to medicines KW - Human rights, intellectual property, innovation and access to medicines N2 - This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with a view to contributing to the development of a human rights framework that can guide States in enacting and implementing intellectual property law and policy. The study primarily explores whether conflicts between patents and human rights in the context of access to medicines are inevitable, or whether patents can be made to serve human rights ER -