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Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation

Philip J. Hilts

Provides a detailed history of the Food and Drug Administration as it evolved into America's most important regulatory agency, designed to protect the nation from hazardous medicines and food products.

Medicine & Public HealthMedicine & Public Health · medium confidenceMedicine & Public Health81 signalsLlm Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthKeyword Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsKeyword Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the BodyPublic Health SystemsScience & Discovery

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor2003WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book argues that the Food and Drug Administration evolved into a key regulatory agency intended to protect the nation from hazardous medicines and food products.

    Model confidence 72%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    40 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.