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Author:

Hilts, Philip J.

Title:

Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation / Philip J. Hilts.

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Food and Drug Administration.
Food law and legislation--United States.
Drugs--Law and legislation--United States.
Pharmaceutical industry--Quality control.
Food adulteration and inspection--United States.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780807855829 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807855820 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56635783

Locations:

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)