Owning the Sun A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09TPYYDJ5 | 2022 | 9 hours and 15 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 254 MB
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 public, only to relinquish exclusive rights to drug companies, and how does such a system impoverish us, weaken our responses to global crises, and, as in the case of AIDS and COVID-19, put the world at risk?