Medical Monopoly
Subtitle: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 24, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780226108186
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry (Synthesis)