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Bea speaks with Alexander Zaitchik about the fraught history of medical patents, and how applying intellectual property laws to drugs went from outright taboo to established order.

Alexander Zaitchik is an independent journalist and author of Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Asprin to COVID-19. You can order his book here: https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/owning-the-sun/

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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