An edition of Protecting America's health
(2003)
Protecting America's health
the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation
by Philip J. Hilts
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Provides a detailed history of the Food and Drug Administration as it evolved into America's most important regulatory agency, designed to protect the nation from hazardous medicines and food products.
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Protecting America's health: the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation
2003, Alfred A. Knopf
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the beginning of regulation
Prologue: the challenge
Dr. Wiley's time
Commerce, commerce, commerce
The progressive era
The law succeeds, and fails
Capitalism in crisis
The birth of the modern pharmaceutical trade
New drugs, new problems
The industry ascendant
The grand bargain
Thalidomide
Science meets policy
Partisan politics
The limits of policy
Deregulation
The medical officer
The modern plague
A progressive
Drug lag revisited
An anti-regulatory campaign
The argument in joined
Old-fashioned politics
Epilogue: Greed and goodness.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
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