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Owning the sun : a people's history of monopoly medicine from aspirin to COVID-19 vaccines / Alexander Zaitchik. by Zaitchik, Alexander, 1974- . Counterpoint, 2022. Call #: 070.44961 Z21o Subjects Patent medicines -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.   Drugs -- United States -- Patents -- History.   Drugs -- Prices -- Law and legislation -- United States.   Medicine -- United States -- History.   Medical care, Cost of -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781640095069 (hc.) Edition:  1st hardcover ed. Description:  xvii, 285 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "'Owning the sun' tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Since the Second World War, federally funded research has facilitated most major medical breakthroughs, yet these drugs are often wholly controlled by price-gouging corporations with growing international ambitions. Why does the U.S. government fund the development of medical science in the name of the public, only to relinquish exclusive rights to drug companies, and how does such a system impoverish us, weaken our responses to global crises, and, as in the case of AIDS and COVID-19, put the world at risk? Outlining how generations of public health and science advocates have attempted to hold the line against Big Pharma and their allies in government, Alexander Zaitchik's first-in-kind history documents the rise of medical monopoly in the United States and its subsequent globalization. From the controversial arrival of patent-wielding German drug firms in the late nineteenth century, to present-day coordination between industry and philanthropic organizations-including the influential Gates Foundation-that stymie international efforts to vaccinate the world against COVID-19, Owning the Sun tells one of the most important and least understood histories of our time"--Jacket. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 070.44961 Z21o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 070.44961 Z21o Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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