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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hilts, Philip J.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Description:	xvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Food and Drug Administration. 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. Drugs -- Law and legislation. Food adulteration and inspection. Food law and legislation. Pharmaceutical industry -- Quality control. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4856641

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ISBN:	037540466X (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-378) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Beginning of Regulation
Prologue: The Challenge
Chapter 1.. Dr. Wiley's Time
Chapter 2.. Commerce, Commerce, Commerce
Chapter 3.. The Progressive Era
Chapter 4.. The Law Succeeds, and Fails
Chapter 5.. Capitalism in Crisis
Chapter 6.. The Birth of the Modern Pharmaceutical Trade
Chapter 7.. New Drugs, New Problems
Chapter 8.. The Industry Ascendant
Chapter 9.. The Grand Bargain
Chapter 10.. Thalidomide
Chapter 11.. Science Meets Policy
Chapter 12.. Partisan Politics
Chapter 13.. The Limits of Policy
Chapter 14.. Deregulation
Chapter 15.. The Medical Officer
Chapter 16.. The Modern Plague
Chapter 17.. A Progressive
Chapter 18.. Drug Lag Revisited
Chapter 19.. An Anti-regulatory Campaign
Chapter 20.. The Argument Is Joined
Chapter 21.. Old-fashioned Politics
Epilogue: Greed and Goodness
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index