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| 1. McDevitt, Mike. "The Nutty Professor and the Nut Paragraph: Social Control of Intellectual Deviance in (and by) the Newsroom" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL, Aug 06, 2008 Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-11-30 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p272866_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: We explicate a dynamic in which media are simultaneously an agent and subject of social control in depictions of intellectual deviance. In a case study of newspaper coverage of Ward Churchill, textual analysis showed how devices within the bounds of conventional objectivity enabled newspapers to operate as an unobtrusive agent of social control. We also interviewed reporters and editors to gain insights on attitudes that help to explain motives associated with control of intellectual deviance. |
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| 2. Arup, Christopher. "The Governance of Patents and Pharmaceuticals: The Case of India's Paragraph 3(d)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Grand Hyatt, Denver, Colorado, May 25, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-30 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p303363_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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Abstract: India has implemented the WTO TRIPs agreement requirement to make patents available for pharmaceutical products. In doing so, the Indian Parliament included a provision that drew a line between incremental innovation and ‘evergreening’, which is the reformulation of active ingredients to extend patent protection and keep generic products from the market. Interest is high because India has been a key source of drug supply to impoverished local populations and patients around the world (including the United States).
The presenter has been in India (with colleague Dr Jagjit Plahe) researching paragraph 3(d). The fate of paragraph 3(d) is a measure of the space the international treaty has left to national law to moderate patentability. At the moment, activity centres on the opposition proceedings at the Patents Office and the spill-over into the Indian courts. But the actors involved, the companies, government agencies, patient groups, NGOs and lawyer activists, seek to regulate patentability and pharmaceutical supply on other legal fronts too.
Consistent with recent theory, governance in this field appears to be multi-layered, multi-polar and multi-modal. The legal connections are horizontal as well as vertical, private actors are influential along with public agencies, and law assumes a variety of normative forms. We can map the field, but the challenge for researchers is to determine whether such a governance pattern enhances the prospects of those with needs and ideas but few material resources and little economic power. Can law overcome power and inequality? |
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