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Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines

Alexander Zaitchik

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Chlorodyne bottles and other medicines on display with a wooden background

Potions, Pills, and Patents: How Basic Healthcare Became Big Business in America

Basic healthcare in the 20th Century greatly impacted the way that the drug business currently operates in the United States.

by Alexander Zaitchik via Literary Hub on March 4, 2022

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Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 1, 2021

U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Birch Bayh shaking hands.

How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.

by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 28, 2018

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