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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.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  353.997 HILTS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  353.9 HIL    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 394 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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.
United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Legislation, Food -- history -- United States.
Drug Approval -- history -- United States.
Food Contamination -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
Food Technology -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
Drug Prescriptions -- history -- United States.
ISBN 037540466X alkaline paper
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