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Zusatztext "A strong case for the proposition that the history of pharmaceutical regulation in the USA is essential for an understanding of contemporary policy debates in America." Informationen zum Autor Dominique A. Tobbell is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine and the Graduate Program in the History of Science! Technology! and Medicine at the University of Minnesota! Twin Cities. She is also the oral historian for the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center History Project. Klappentext "Tobbell analyzes the political and economic history of the alignment of the pharmaceutical industry! academic institutions and their faculty and organized medicine. This book is essential reading for policymakers and their staff as well as persons who study the history of health policy and those who contribute to it through medical research! advocacy and journalism. " -Daniel Fox! author of The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research! Health Policy! and American States "Dominique Tobbell's vivid! balanced and probing account of pharmaceutical politics is a significant! needed analysis of the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry! university researchers! the medical profession and government in the Cold War period. More than this! Pills! Power! and Policy shows why it continues to be difficult to agree in the United States on the relative roles of corporate enterprise! government regulation! technological innovation! freedom to prescribe! and consumer marketing and protection! all played out against the rising costs of health care. Timely and thought-provoking."--Rosemary A. Stevens. DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar! Department of Psychiatry! Weill Cornell Medical College "A superb and compelling account of the creation of one of America's most reviled entities: Big Pharma. With clarity and subtlety! Pills! Power! and Policy weaves together the political! economic! and the medical to reveal the entangled history behind our modern pharmaceutical predicament."--Andrea Tone! Ph.D.! Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine! McGill University " Pills! Power and Policy provides an outstanding description and analysis of the evolution of drug policy. It is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of the political! scientific! and economic nature of pharmaceutical regulation." -Daniel S. Greenberg! Washington journalist and author of Science! Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion Zusammenfassung Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This title details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
