Medical monopoly : intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry / Joseph M. Gabriel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]Copyright date: Description: x, 334 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226108186
  • 022610818X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.4/76151 23
LOC classification:
  • RA401.A3 G33 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2014 N-025
  • QV 733 AA1
Contents:
Medical science and property rights in the early republic -- Monopoly and ethics in the antebellum years -- In the shadow of war -- Therapeutic reform and the reinterpretation of monopoly -- The ambiguities of abundance -- The embrace of intellectual property -- Conclusion : The promise of reform.
Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of previously overlooked archival material, 'Medical Monopoly' combines legal, medical, and business history to offer a sweeping new interpretation of the origins of the complex and often troubling relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and medical practice today. Joseph M. Gabriel provides the first detailed history of patent and trademark law as it relates to the nineteenth century pharmaceutical industry, as well as unique interpretation of medical ethics, therapeutic reform, and efforts to regulate the market in pharmaceuticals before World War I"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-324) and index.

Medical science and property rights in the early republic -- Monopoly and ethics in the antebellum years -- In the shadow of war -- Therapeutic reform and the reinterpretation of monopoly -- The ambiguities of abundance -- The embrace of intellectual property -- Conclusion : The promise of reform.

"Drawing on a wealth of previously overlooked archival material, 'Medical Monopoly' combines legal, medical, and business history to offer a sweeping new interpretation of the origins of the complex and often troubling relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and medical practice today. Joseph M. Gabriel provides the first detailed history of patent and trademark law as it relates to the nineteenth century pharmaceutical industry, as well as unique interpretation of medical ethics, therapeutic reform, and efforts to regulate the market in pharmaceuticals before World War I"--Jacket.

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