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Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation

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Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation / Philip J. Hilts.
Author
Hilts, Philip J.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
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xvi, 394 p.; 25 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
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.
Call Number
JBE 04-594
ISBN
037540466X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2002029859
OCLC
50417346
Author
Hilts, Philip J.
Title
Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation / Philip J. Hilts.
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
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JBE 04-594
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