Experimenting with the consumer
Subtitle: the mass testing of risky products on the American public
By: Marshall S. Shapo.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780313365287
Subjects: Products liability -- United States; Technological innovations -- Law and legislation -- United States; Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Experimentation : a survey at trench level; title: HIV/AIDS drugs : speeding up science, under political pressure; title: Breast implants : a parable of law's response to improvements on nature; title: Treating thyself-for men only : viagra; title: Estrogens : a gathering of data, a gathering storm; title: Estrogens, the storm breaks : a struggle of medicine, law, and politics; title: Experiments at the billionth level : nanotechnology.