Medical monopoly : intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry / Joseph M. Gabriel.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

x, 334 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-324) and index.

Medical science and property rights in the early republic -- Monopoly and ethics in the antebellum years -- In the shadow of war -- Therapeutic reform and the reinterpretation of monopoly -- The ambiguities of abundance -- The embrace of intellectual property -- Conclusion : the promise of reform.