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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilts, Philip J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Edition:Paperback ed.
Subjects:
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.
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.