Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat

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Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
by Fran Hawthorne
from Wiley

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Everything you want to know about the FDA.
  This is one of the most thorough investigative books I have ever read on such a narrow topic. The author covers the history, and political and regulatory issues of the FDA in far more detail than I expected. Her in depth investigative style reminds me of Sylvia Nasar in A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash.
  From the author's investigation I derived the FDA does the very best of an impossible situation. This is because its constituents have irreconcilable... more info

• The FDA's job may not be able to be justified
  Rarely do any of us get a glimpse so throughout into a governmental body as large as the FDA. Author Fran Hawthorne claims the FDA to have nearly 11,000 doctors, scientists, and others --all there to maintain the safety of the drugs all Americans use and do a good job of it. I think they have been lucky. They (the FDA) has lost its objectivity over the years because of a counter productive lifestyle. They have panels voting on issues or problems with drugs on the markets of which the voting members often... more info

• Highly Informative (and Neutral) Look at the FDA
  Democrats want more Big Pharma regulation and consumer protection. Republicans want to protect Big Pharma's profits. The tobacco and diet supplement industries want to be left the hell alone. And consumers want miracle drugs for free. Somehow, some way, the FDA navigates the minefields of the food and drug industries every day and tries to base its decisions on science. While some authors take cracks at the FDA because of a political agenda, Fran Hawthorne remains neutral and thus provides the most... more info

• If you want to know about an administration that controls a third of our economy, this is the first step.
  If you know nothing of the FDA, than this will blow your mind. By the time you are through half the book you will be considered an expert on the subject by all your friends.
  Not one of the more exciting reads, but extremely informative. Not just about what you might think it is about, but much much more. This book will give a clearer view of where we all live.

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