Intellectual property rights and traditional medicine: Policy dilemmas at the interface

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 745-756

  Timmermans, Karin ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intellectual property rights; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MEDICINE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGAL ASPECT; PATENT; PHILOSOPHY; PROTECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISCLOSURE; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECOSYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OWNERSHIP; PATENTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLICY MAKING; THEFT;

EID: 0038479974     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00425-2     Document Type: Article

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