Protecting America's health
Subtitle: the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation
By: Philip J. Hilts
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780375404665
Subjects: FDA; Law and legislation; Food Contamination; USA; Histoire; Droit; Farmaceutische industrie; Médicaments; Pharmaceutical industry; Drug Legislation; Contrôle; Wetgeving; Drug Approval; History; United States; Aliments; Food law and legislation; Food adulteration and inspection; Drugs; Legislation & jurisprudence; Food Legislation; Qualité; Food and Drug Administration; Industrie pharmaceutique; Quality control; États-Unis; États-Unis. Food and Drug Administration; Food Technology; United States. Food and Drug Administration
Description: Provides a detailed history of the Food and Drug Administration as it evolved into America's most important regulatory agency, designed to protect the nation from hazardous medicines and food products.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the beginning of regulation; title: Prologue: the challenge; title: Dr. Wiley's time; title: Commerce, commerce, commerce; title: The progressive era; title: The law succeeds, and fails; title: Capitalism in crisis; title: The birth of the modern pharmaceutical trade; title: New drugs, new problems; title: The industry ascendant; title: The grand bargain; title: Thalidomide; title: Science meets policy; title: Partisan politics; title: The limits of policy; title: Deregulation; title: The medical officer; title: The modern plague; title: A progressive; title: Drug lag revisited; title: An anti-regulatory campaign; title: The argument in joined; title: Old-fashioned politics; title: Epilogue: Greed and goodness.