MGT 3211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Natural And Legal Rights, Multistakeholder Governance Model, Allodial Title
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The right-to-healthcare argument: critics do not deny overall ability sa and sqa, challenge limits of application. Industry as a whole and individual companies have special obligations: related to what they produce/drugs, special position to help and obligation to do so, those in need impose obligation on those able to help. Just bc new drugs are created involved with marketing and lobbying, does not mean marketing and lobbying is necessary: the access obligation, drugs available to those who need them. Sa and sqa do not show that ip rights trump the rights to basic health care and the right of access to needed medication. Intellectual property rights, moral imagination, and access to life-enhancing drugs -- werhane. & gorman: challenges stem from several ides: Part i: traditional ip rights mental model: enlightenment age thinkers (locke, smith, jefferson) recognize property as a fundamental right for humans. Industrial revolution meant theory had to be expanded to ideas, not just material objects.
