When authorship met authenticity

Adrian Johns
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Adrian Johns: Adrian Johns is professor of history at the University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. His new book Piracy will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Nature, 2008, vol. 451, issue 7182, 1058-1059

Abstract: As counterfeit drugs abound, Adrian Johns recalls how medical patenting was created in the seventeenth century to secure trust across growing international trade networks by quashing fakes.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/4511058a

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