Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal

Read [Lucas Richert Book] ^ Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal In the last quarter of the 20th century, politicians in Washington, as well as interest groups, regulatory policy makers, and drug industry leaders were forced to confront the hot-button issue of pharmaceutical regulation. As the American economy stuttered in the late 1970s, the stakes were extremely high for the powerful drug industry and the American public. At the center of this drama was the Food and Drug Administration, which was censured from both the left and right of the political spectr

Author	:	Lucas Richert
Rating	:	4.40 (750 Votes)
Asin	:	0739182587
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	232 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-10-05
Language	:	English

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In the last quarter of the 20th century, politicians in Washington, as well as interest groups, regulatory policy makers, and drug industry leaders were forced to confront the hot-button issue of pharmaceutical regulation. As the American economy stuttered in the late 1970s, the stakes were extremely high for the powerful drug industry and the American public. At the center of this drama was the Food and Drug Administration, which was censured from both the left and right of the political spectrum for being too strict and too lenient in the application of its regulatory powers.Lucas Richert expl

Lucas Richert is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan.

"Winner of the 2015 British Association of American Studies Arthur Miller Centre First Book Award" according to Miggs. “Dr. Lucas Richert is a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan. His research is at the meeting point of modern U.S. history, health policy, and the history of medicine and technology. He is particularly interested in the role of pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs, and psychiatry in the formation of the American state. More specifically, he

This period was also the time of the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the rapid growth of generic drugs. (Social History Of Medicine)Lucas Richert's book ably reviews the place of the FDA in the modern regulatory order, and helps make the agency's struggles comprehensible. (Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota)A thoughtful and accessible narrative history that situates the FDA in the partisan and ideological politics of the long Reagan era. The effect of presidential and interest-group politics on public agencies has been a fundamental problem in public administration for more than a century. Summing Up: Recommended. He based his analysis on a wide range of secondary sources, along with official documents from the FDA