Owning the Sun by Alexander Zaitchik - ISBN: 9798212056090
Life-saving medicines: a fight for control, from past to present crises.

Owning the Sun

A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines

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    14 March 2022

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Summary

Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Why does the US government fund the development of medical science in the name of the publi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798212056090
Author:Alexander Zaitchik, Johnny Heller
Publisher:HighBridge Audio
Imprint:HighBridge Audio
Release Date:14 March 2022
Weight:91g
About The Author

Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik is a freelance journalist. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Intercept, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, VICE, and The Baffler, among many other publications. Owning the Sun is his third book. He lives in New Orleans.

Johnny Heller, a Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award winner, has recorded over 800 audiobooks spanning every genre. He is a four-time Audie Award winner; an AudioFile Best Voice, Booklist Editor’s Choice List, and Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award winner; and the winner of over thirty Earphones Awards. His national and international audiobook coaching workshops are called “game changing” by attendees. AudioFile magazine named him one of the top fifty voices of the twentieth century.

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