For readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people 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 pro