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Pills, power, and policy : the struggle for drug reform in Cold War America and its consequences / Dominique A. Tobbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobbell, Dominique A., 1978-
- Series:
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 23.
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Drugs.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States--History--20th century.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Drug Industry--history.
- History.
- Drugs--Research.
- United States.
- Economics, Pharmaceutical.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--history.
- United States.
- Economics, Pharmaceutical.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Millbank Memorial Fund, [2012]
- 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 Policy offers 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 prescription drugs. Untangling the complex relationships between drug companies, physicians, and academic researchers, the book provides essential historical context for understanding how corporate interests came to dominate American health care policy after World War II. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520271135
- 0520271130
- 9780520271142
- 0520271149
- OCLC:
- 712765599
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