Pills, Power, and Policy, 23 - (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) by Dominique Tobbell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Tobbell analyzes the political and economic history of the alignment of the pharmaceutical industry, academic institutions and their faculty and organized medicine. This book is essential reading for policymakers and their staff as well as persons who study the history of health policy and those who contribute to it through medical research, advocacy and journalism. " -Daniel Fox, author of "The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States" <BR>"Dominique Tobbell's vivid, balanced and probing account of pharmaceutical politics is a significant, needed analysis of the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, university researchers, the medical profession and government in the Cold War period. More than this, "Pills, Power, and Policy" shows why it continues to be difficult to agree in the United States on the relative roles of corporate enterprise, government regulation, technological innovation, freedom to prescribe, and consumer marketing and protection, all played out against the rising costs of health care. Timely and thought-provoking."--Rosemary A. Stevens. DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College <BR>"A superb and compelling account of the creation of one of America's most reviled entities: Big Pharma. With clarity and subtlety, "Pills, Power, and Policy" weaves together the political, economic, and the medical to reveal the entangled history behind our modern pharmaceutical predicament."--Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine, McGill University <BR>""Pills, Power and Policy" provides an outstanding description and analysis of the evolution of drug policy. It is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of the political, scientific, and economic nature of pharmaceutical regulation." -Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington journalist and author of "Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation.<i>Pills, Power, and Policy</i>offers a lucid history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. It details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs. Untangling the complex relationships between drug companies, physicians, and academic researchers, the book provides essential historical context for understanding how corporate interests came to dominate American health care policy after World War II.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Tobbell analyzes the political and economic history of the alignment of the pharmaceutical industry, academic institutions and their faculty and organized medicine. This book is essential reading for policymakers and their staff as well as persons who study the history of health policy and those who contribute to it through medical research, advocacy and journalism. -Daniel Fox, author of <i>The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States</i> <br /><br />Dominique Tobbell's vivid, balanced and probing account of pharmaceutical politics is a significant, needed analysis of the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, university researchers, the medical profession and government in the Cold War period. More than this, <i>Pills, Power, and Policy</i> shows why it continues to be difficult to agree in the United States on the relative roles of corporate enterprise, government regulation, technological innovation, freedom to prescribe, and consumer marketing and protection, all played out against the rising costs of health care. Timely and thought-provoking.--Rosemary A. Stevens. DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College<br /><br />A superb and compelling account of the creation of one of America's most reviled entities: Big Pharma. With clarity and subtlety, <i>Pills, Power, and Policy</i> weaves together the political, economic, and the medical to reveal the entangled history behind our modern pharmaceutical predicament.--Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine, McGill University<br /><br />"<i>Pills, Power and Policy</i> provides an outstanding description and analysis of the evolution of drug policy. It is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of the political, scientific, and economic nature of pharmaceutical regulation. -Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington journalist and author of <i>Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] well-researched and skillfully argued volume."--Scott H. Podolsky, Harvard Medical School "Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine" (1/23/2013 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>"Based on extensive research, Pills, Power, and Policy is intelligently written, and its points are illustrated with highly readable examples."-- "Health Affairs" (7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>"Pills, Power, and Policy is an important contribution to our understanding of the science and politics of the pharmaceutical industry."--Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D. -- Yale University School of Medicine "Inquiry" (12/12/2012 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>"Tobbell contributes . . . fine historical attention to the development of large pharmaceutical companies . . . with a longer story of lobbying and politics."-- "Times Higher Education" (5/24/2012 12:00:00 AM)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dominique A. Tobbell</b> is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine and the Graduate Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is also the oral historian for the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center History Project.
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