Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies
|
Buy Now
Medical Monopoly - Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry (Paperback)
Loot Price: R833
Discovery Miles 8 330
|
|
Medical Monopoly - Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
During most of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists
alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by
drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who
prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the
medical community. In the decades following the Civil War, however,
complex changes in patent and trademark law intersected with the
changing sensibilities of both physicians and pharmacists to make
intellectual property rights in drug manufacturing scientifically
and ethically legitimate. By World War I, patented and trademarked
drugs had become essential to the practice of good medicine, aiding
in the rise of the American pharmaceutical industry and forever
altering the course of medicine. Drawing on a wealth of previously
unused 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 a unique interpretation of medical ethics, therapeutic
reform, and the efforts to regulate the market in pharmaceuticals
before World War I. His book will be of interest not only to
historians of medicine and science and intellectual property
scholars but also to anyone following contemporary debates about
the pharmaceutical industry, the patenting of scientific
discoveries, and the role of advertising in the marketplace.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.