Owning the Sun: How Pharma Patents Steal Our Health & Wealth | Alexander Zaitchik | TMR

Author Alexander Zaitchik joins the program to discuss his book Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines.

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"Owning the Sun" delves into the contentious battle over the legal rights to produce life-saving medicines, revealing how the pharmaceutical industry's influence and the intertwining of research with intellectual property have eroded the ethical foundations of medical science. Despite most major medical breakthroughs being fueled by federally funded research since World War II, these innovations often fall under the control of profit-driven corporations, leading to exorbitant drug prices, weakening crisis responses, and global risks as seen with AIDS and COVID-19. Alexander Zaitchik's groundbreaking history traces the privatization of medicine in the U.S., from the arrival of patent-holding German drug firms in the late 19th century to today's collaborations between industry and philanthropic organizations, obstructing worldwide efforts to combat diseases like COVID-19, making it one of the least understood yet crucial histories of our era.

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