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

Philip J Hilts has written about medicine for the Washington Post and the New York Times since 1989. Here he has provided us with a well written history of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since its creation by President Theodore Roosevelt, who was outraged by widespread adulteration of food and quackery, such as snake oil remedies for cancer.

Philip J Hilts

Alfred A Knopf, $26.95/£14.50/€20, pp 416 ISBN 0 375 40466 X

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Hilts describes the changing fortunes of the FDA under various politicians and commissioners. …