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Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation

Public Ethics Radio (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Carnegie Council)

Thomas Pogge, Christian Barry, Matt Peterson

August 27, 2008

Thomas Pogge explains his proposal for dealing with the thorny intersection of public health, property rights, and poverty. As he sees it, the patent system doesn't work as well for medicines as it does for, say, consumer electronics.

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