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Author Tobbell, Dominique A., 1978-

Title Pills, power, and policy : the struggle for drug reform in Cold War America and its consequences / Dominique A. Tobbell.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Millbank Memorial Fund, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 294 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 23
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 23.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Knowledgeable relations : the building of a pharmaceutical research network -- Workforce relations : the invention of the pharmaceutical post-doctoral fellowship -- Professional relations : crafting the public image of the health care team -- Cold war alliances : Kefauver's bid for pharmaceutical reform -- Expert alliances : creating the drug research board -- Generic alliances and the backlash against regulatory reform.
Summary Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. Pills, Power, and Policyoffers a lucid history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. It details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescriptio.
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Subject Drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Drugs -- Research.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Pharmaceutical industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Drug Industry -- history.
Economics, Pharmaceutical.
History, 20th Century.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Medication.
Other Form: Print version: Tobbell, Dominique A., 1978- Pills, power, and policy. Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Millbank Memorial Fund, ©2012 9780520271135 (DLC) 2011014878 (OCoLC)712765599
ISBN 9780520952423 (electronic book)
0520952421 (electronic book)
1280116773
9781280116773
9780520271135
0520271130
9780520271142
0520271149