Protecting America's health :

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Hilts, Philip J. Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation / Philip J. Hilts. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
xvi, 394 p. ; 25 cm. Content notes : 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. 037540466X (alk. paper) 9780375404665 (alk. paper) * United States. États-Unis. United States. USA - 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. FDA. Farmaceutische industrie. Wetgeving. Aliments - Droit - Histoire. - États-Unis Médicaments - Droit - Histoire. - États-Unis Industrie pharmaceutique - Qualité - Contrôle. Legislation, Food - history - United States. Drug Approval - history - United States. Food Contamination - legislation & jurisprudence - United States. Food Technology - legislation & jurisprudence - United States. Legislation, Drug - history - United States.