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Experimenting with the consumer : the mass testing of risky products on the American public /

Shapo, Marshall S., 1936-

Experimenting with the consumer : the mass testing of risky products on the American public / Marshall S. Shapo. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009. - xi, 288 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-278) and index.

Experimentation : a survey at trench level -- HIV/AIDS drugs : speeding up science under political pressure -- Breast implants : a parable of law's response to improvements on nature -- Treating thyself with drugs - for men only : the saga of Viagra -- Estrogens : a gathering of data, a gathering storm -- Estrogens - the storm breaks : a struggle of medicine, law, and politics -- Experiments at the billionth level : nanotechnology.

9780313365287 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0313365288 (hbk. : alk. paper)

2008033664


Products liability--United States.
Technological innovations--Law and legislation--United States.
Human experimentation in medicine--Law and legislation--United States.

KF1296 / .S428 2009

346.7303/8

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