Reputation and power organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organ...

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Main Author:	Carpenter, Daniel P
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Edition:	1
Series:	Princeton studies in American politics
Subjects:	Adverse effect Adverse event Advisory board Advocacy Agency Amendment American Medical Association Bristol-Myers Squibb Bureaucrat Cambridge University Press Chemotherapy Clinical investigator Clinical pharmacology Clinical research Clinical Study Clinical trial Complication (medicine) Conservatism Consideration Consumer protection Cosmetics Criticism Disease Distrust Drug development Drug Evaluation Drugs Drugs > Research > United States Efficacy Employment Federal Trade Commission General counsel Governance Government agency Government policy Health Sciences HISTORY HISTORY / United States / General Human subject research Indication (medicine) Institution Investigational New Drug Johns Hopkins Legislation MEDICAL / Pharmacology Medical director Medical research Medical school Medical treatment New drug application Nonfiction Oncology Pfizer Pharmaceutical drug Pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical policy Pharmaceutical policy > United States Pharmacist Pharmacology Pharmacy Physician Political economy POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General Politician Politics Precedent Prescription drug Provision (contracting) Public health Public Policy Quackery Regime Regulation Regulatory affairs Regulatory agency Requirement Research and development Rulemaking Scientist Statute Suggestion Textbook Thalidomide Toxicity Toxicology U.S.A United States United States. Food and Drug Administration Precedent Disease American Medical Association Medical director Bureaucrat Institution Drug development Political economy Human subject research Prescription drug Politician Suggestion Toxicology Amendment Political science Statute Cambridge University Press Medical school Pharmaceutical industry Johns Hopkins Clinical Study Thalidomide Public health Medical research Bristol-Myers Squibb Quackery Legislation Scientist Adverse event Consumer protection Investigational New Drug Provision (contracting) Requirement Chemotherapy Pharmacy Textbook Distrust Consideration Regulatory affairs New drug application Pharmaceutical drug Toxicity Drug Evaluation Oncology Adverse effect Research and development Employment Regulatory agency General counsel Clinical trial Cosmetics Federal Trade Commission Regime Pfizer Physician Efficacy Clinical research Pharmacology Criticism Government agency Governance Complication (medicine) Rulemaking Clinical investigator Clinical pharmacology Politics Regulation Pharmacist Advisory board Indication (medicine)
ISBN:	9781400835119, 0691141800, 9780691141800, 9780691141794, 1400835119, 0691141797
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Summary:	The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [753]-757) and index Electronic reproduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. SourceType-Books-1 ObjectType-Book-1 content type line 7
ISBN:	9781400835119 0691141800 9780691141800 9780691141794 1400835119 0691141797
DOI:	10.1515/9781400835119