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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the battle against thalidomide / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kelsey, Frances Oldham, 1914-2015.
- Kelsey, Frances Oldham.
- United States. Food and Drug Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Pharmacologists--Canada--Biography.
- Pharmacologists.
- Thalidomide--United States--History.
- Thalidomide.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America when she prevented the deadly sedative thalidomide from entering the U.S. market. Her lifesaving work there became the basis for the FDA's current drug approval protocols. This biography brings to light the efforts and legacy of a pioneering woman in science whose contributions are still influential today.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a personal life, a national agency, and a global tragedy
- Balgonie to Balgonie
- University in Canada
- Doctoral studies at the University of Chicago
- Whales, cod, armadillos, and glass ceilings : the postdoctoral years
- Wartime in Chicago
- Marriage, motherhood, and medical school
- Adventures in South Dakota
- The early Washington years
- The thalidomide file
- The battle of the lady and the dragon
- Thalidomide babies
- The good mother of science : letters to Frances Kelsey
- The Canadian connection
- The living myth, 1963-1966
- Negotiating Washington, 1966-1982
- Peaches, oyster breath, and diet cola : public demands for product approvals
- The ticking time bomb : diethylstilbestrol
- Policing informed consent, 1960s-1990s
- Babies and orphans : drug testing in utero and in children
- Lasting memorials, everyday happenings
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 15, 2024).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780197632574
- 0197632572
- 9780197632550
- 0197632556
- 9780197632567
- 0197632564
- OCLC:
- 1422169250
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