Einleitung -- Überblick über die ökonomischen und medizinischen Grundlagen -- Der Gesundheitssektor im Allgemeinen -- Wirtschaftliche Analyse der Pharmaindustrie -- Ökonomische Randbereiche der Pharmabranche -- Derzeitiger Stand der Arzneimittelforschung und -entwicklung -- Produktformen --...

Human rights and access to essential medicines -- The human right to health and the virtue of creative resolve -- Promoting global health : the case for a Global Health Impact labelling and licensing -- Individual responsibility for promoting global health : the case for a new kind of socially...

This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...