The progress of experiment : science and therapeutic reform in the United States, 1900-1990 / Harry M. Marks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Harry M., 1947-

Contributor:

Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cambridge history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Therapeutics--United States--History--20th century.

Therapeutics.

Drugs--United States--Testing--History--20th century.

Drugs.

Drugs--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.

Therapeutics--United States--History.

Pharmaceutical policy--United States.

Pharmaceutical policy.

Clinical trials.

History.

Drugs--Law and legislation.

Testing.

United States.

Clinical trials--United States--History.

Drugs--Testing.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Explores the origins of contemporary drug regulation and the modern clinical trial.

Contents:

Part I. Of Institutions and Character: the Era of Organizational Reform 15

1 A rational therapeutics 17

2 Memories of underdevelopment: Therapeutic research in the United States, 1900-1935 42

3 Playing it safe: The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 71

4 War and peace 98

Part II. Of Methods and Institutions, or the Triumph of Statistics 129

5 Managing chance: Statistics and therapeutic experiments, 1950-1960 136

6 You gotta have heart 164

7 Anatomy of a controversy: The University Group Diabetes Program study 197

8 The dreams of reason: Retrospect and prospect 229.

Notes:

Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521785618

9780521785617

OCLC:

43673273