Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America

Lock, Margaret

doi:10.1007/0-306-48094-8_8

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“…24 Although Lock is right in stating that colonialism never succeeded in completely eradicating indigenous health care practices, the latter is still largely dominated by western medicine with the attendant adverse consequences to the peoples of Africa. 25 By alienating traditional medicine for decades, colonialism created unacceptable levels of inequalities, which have to this day, disadvantaged the majority of African people who are not only unable to afford pharmaceutical brands but to say the least, are grossly deprived of the opportunity for socioeconomic and cultural development.…”

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Intellectual Property Protection of African Traditional Medicine within the Legal Framework of the Right to Development

Ngang

Ageh

2019

African J Intl & Comparative Law

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In this article, we examine the prospect of securing intellectual property protection of African traditional medicine within the legal framework of the right to development in Africa. We do so with the aim to advance the right to development as an imperative to improving living standards for the peoples of Africa. Our analysis involves determining to what extent adequate protection could be secured to the benefit of the communities that engage in the practice of traditional medicine as a livelihood. Despite the imposition of western medicine, which has dominated traditional medicine since the colonial era, the latter has survived and, as we argue, deserves protection for gainful purpose as part of the common heritage, which the peoples of Africa are entitled by law to benefit from. With the renewed impetus directed towards re-establishing African value systems against the iniquities of imperial domination, our central focus in this article is to demonstrate that the practice of traditional medicine is deeply rooted in African culture, which under the African human rights system is granted as a human right. In essence, the advancement of African culture constitutes an integral aspect of the right to socio-economic and cultural development enshrined in the African Charter. Unlike other intellectual property regimes, which we argue are not sufficiently protective, we posit that the right development provides a sui generis framework within which intellectual property protection of African traditional medicine could effectively be claimed as a measure to secure redistributive justice, which the peoples of Africa have been deprived of over the decades.

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confidence: 99%