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OverviewSince 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominique TobbellPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 23 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520271142ISBN 10: 0520271149 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 07 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsForeword 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 IndexReviewsBased on extensive research, Pills, Power, and Policy is intelligently written, and its points are illustrated with highly readable examples. -- Health Affairs Based on extensive research, Pills, Power, and Policy is intelligently written, and its points are illustrated with highly readable examples. Health Affairs 20120701 Tobbell contributes ... fine historical attention to the development of large pharmaceutical companies ... with a longer story of lobbying and politics. Times Higher Education 20120524 Pills, Power, and Policy is an important contribution to our understanding of the science and politics of the pharmaceutical industry. -- Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D. -- Yale University School of Medicine Inquiry 20121212 [A] well-researched and skillfully argued volume. -- Scott H. Podolsky, Harvard Medical School Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine 20130123 Author InformationDominique 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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