Medicines for Man: The Development, Regulation, and Use of Prescription Drugs

Abstract

The excellence of this book stems from the author's intimate and varied experience: a private practitioner, teacher of preventive and internal medicine, investigator of infectious disease and antibiotics, member of the AMA Council on Drugs and of the US Pharmacopeia, and advisor to the Food and Drug Administration and to congressional legislative committees. Clear and well-organized, the book explains the development of the modern production, testing, naming, distribution, and regulation of drugs. The explanation of the many institutions involved in drug-evaluation, and their interrelationships, is especially valuable. Among these institutions are: the medical profession, medical schools, pharmaceutical industry, the Food and Drug Administration and the federal Division of Biologic Standards, and the private but quasi-governmental organizations of the American Dental, Medical, and Pharmaceutical Associations, the US Pharmacopeia and National Formulary, and the Drug Research Board of the National Research Council. The development of the regulatory roles of the AMA and