A shared intellect: A Rawlsian analysis of vaccine patent protections

• Main Author: Co, Vincent Ferdinand T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Vaccines; Patents; Intellectual property; John Rawls, 1921-2002; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/2
• Institution: De La Salle University

One fundamental issue at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic is the relationship between access to medicine and intellectual property rights. The purpose of what follows is to advocate for a cosmopolitan interpretation of John Rawls and apply it to the debate on vaccine patent protections. Using...