Limiting and facilitating access to innovations in medicine and agriculture: a brief exposition of the ethical arguments

Life Sciences, Society and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Timmermann, Cristian ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Society and the Life Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access to medicines; Benefiting from science; Global justice; Human rights; Intellectual property

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975687549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21957819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40504-014-0008-5     Document Type: Article

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