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

An authoritative history of how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people—from patents to the COVID-19 vaccine—for readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain.

Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to produce 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 pharmaceutica...