Title: Medical monopoly : intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry /
Authors: Gabriel, Joseph M.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer; Pharmaceutical Preparations economics; Legislation, Drug; Intellectual Property; Drug Discovery; Drug Industry; Drugs Law and legislation United States; Pharmacy Law and legislation United States; Drugs Law and legislation United States.; Pharmacy Law and legislation United States.; Pharmaceutical policy United States History.; Drug development United States History.; Drugs United States Patents; Intellectual property United States; Drugs Patents United States.; Pharmaceutical industry Law and legislation United States.; Drugs Patents; United States; United States
Abstract: "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"--Dust jacket.
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.