What does a practical political idea like the Health Impact Fund have to do with academic philosophy? Or, as the question is often posed, why is the Health Impact Fund being run by Thomas Pogge, a philosopher? I’m a (marginal) member of the HIF project, and I find myself confronted by this question on a [...]
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August 28, 2008
Episode 1 Transcript
We had a couple of requests for a transcript of Episode 1. Here it is. Download (PDF, 132 kb)
August 22, 2008
Episode 1. Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation
In our first episode, 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. Allowing an inventor a monopoly over her invention works well enough when that [...]
