A New Issue of History and Technology An International Journal is Now Available

March 25, 2008

History and Technology An International Journal (Volume 24 Issue 2, 2008) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:
“How pharmaceuticals became patentable: the production and appropriation of drugs in the twentieth century” by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, 99 – 106
“Professional or industrial order? Patents, biological drugs, and pharmaceutical capitalism in early twentieth century Germany” by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, 107 – 133
“Patents and public health in France. Pharmaceutical patent law in-the-making at the patent office between the two world wars” by Maurice Cassier, 135 – 151
“‘Patenting in the public interest:’ administration of insulin patents by the University of Toronto” by Maurice Cassier; Christiane Sinding, 153 – 171
“Upheaval in the moral economy of science? Patenting, teamwork and the World War II experience of penicillin” by Robert Bud, 173 – 190
“Patents and the UK pharmaceutical industry between 1945 and the 1970s” by Judy Slinn, 191 – 205