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Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...
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£24,00
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Membranes to Molecular Machines Active Matter and the Remaking of Life
ISBN: HB: 9780226625157, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, June 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 23 halftones
Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" in our brain cells' membranes open and close; when we run, tiny "motors" in our muscle c...
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£34,00
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TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs
ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...
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£30,00
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Experimental Self Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226351360, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth...
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