Medical Monopoly

Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Joseph M. Gabriel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-71022-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Joseph M. Gabriel is associate professor at Florida State University.

A Note about Terms
Introduction

1 Medical Science and Property Rights in the Early Republic
2 Monopoly and Ethics in the Antebellum Years
3 In the Shadow of War
4 Therapeutic Reform and the Reinterpretation of Monopoly
5 The Ambiguities of Abundance
6 The Embrace of Intellectual Property
Conclusion: The Promise of Reform

Acknowledgments
Archival Collections Consulted
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Synthesis
Zusatzinfo	10 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-226-71022-X / 022671022X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-71022-8 / 9780226710228
Zustand	Neuware