Pills, Power, and Policy (eBook)

The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences

Dominique Tobbell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
310 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95242-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.

Inhalt

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pharmaceutical Politics, Then and Now

Part I: Forging Pharmaceutical Relations
1. Knowledgeable Relations: The Building of a Pharmaceutical Research Network
2. Workforce Relations: The Invention of the Pharmaceutical Postdoctoral Fellowship
3. Professional Relations: Crafting the Public Image of the Health Care Team

Part II: Allied against Reform
4. Cold War Alliances: Kefauver’s Bid for Pharmaceutical Reform
5. Expert Alliances: The Creation of the Drug Research Board
6. Generic Alliances and the Backlash against Regulatory Reform

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
• Reihe/Serie: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: addiction • american healthcare • Antibiotics • dangers of drugs • discussion books • doctors and drugs • Drug Addiction • drug company history • drug corruption • drug regulation • Drugs • drug safety • Drug use • drug use in america • easy to read • engaging • great for reluctant readers • healthcare after world war ii • healthcare in united states • Historical • informative books • interesting books • medical relationships • medicine and science • pharmaceutical reform • pharmaceuticals • physicians and drug companies • prescription drugs
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95242-1 / 0520952421
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95242-3 / 9780520952423