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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought Merrell, the drug's American manufacturer,...
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