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Daniel J. Kevles is a Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and a visiting scholar at NYU Law School. His books include The Physicists, In the Name of Eugenics, The Baltimore Case, and, most recently, Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection. He is writing a history of intellectual property protection in living organisms. (October 2023)
Unreasonable Terms
In Owning the Sun, Alexander Zaitchik shows how American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest.
Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines
by Alexander Zaitchik
October 5, 2023 issue
The Scandal of Our Drug Supply
‘Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom’ by Katherine Eban
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by Katherine Eban
July 23, 2020 issue
Why Is Medicine So Expensive?
The system of prescription drug pricing is a patchwork product of history, vulnerable to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry.
Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
by Joseph M. Gabriel
Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
by Jeremy A. Greene
Getting to the Root of High Prescription Drug Prices: Drivers and Potential Solutions
a report by Henry Waxman and others
February 21, 2019 issue
An American Passion Revealed
Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America
by Philip J. Pauly
May 13, 2010 issue
Martyred by Monsters
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecutionof One of the Great Scientistsof the Twentieth Century
by Peter Pringle
October 9, 2008 issue
The Poor Man’s Atomic Bomb
Jonathan B. Tucker’s ‘War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda’
War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
by Jonathan B. Tucker
April 12, 2007 issue
The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
by Gregg Herken
Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb
by Brian VanDeMark
December 4, 2003 issue
His Master’s Voice
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933
by Emily Thompson
April 10, 2003 issue
Cancer: What Do They Know?
The Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins
by by Robert A. Weinberg
September 23, 1999 issue
Darwin in Dayton
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
November 19, 1998 issue
Endangered Environmentalists
The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture
by Paul Raeburn
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides
by Wargo John
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
by Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
by Mark Dowie
February 20, 1997 issue
Greens in America
The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Writings
by Paul Brooks
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
by Robert Gottlieb
The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism
by Charles T. Rubin
The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992
by Kirkpatrick Sale
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
by Philip Shabecoff
Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement
by Susan Zakin
October 6, 1994 issue
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