Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat

doi:10.1056/NEJMbkrev38565

Volume 353:1188		September 15, 2005		Number 11

Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat

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By Fran Hawthorne. 338 pp. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, 2005. $27.95. ISBN 0-471-61091-7.

Fran Hawthorne, senior contributing editor of InstitutionalInvestor and a veteran writer covering health care, is not shyabout expressing her opinions concerning the successes and failuresof the regulatory agency that oversees approximately one quarterof the U.S. economy. Along the way, however, she presents thereader with a thoughtful and relatively balanced discussionof numerous issues with which the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has been involved during its 100-year history. A prominenttheme is that the FDA increasingly has ventured beyond adjudicationof scientific matters into controversies involving issues ofpublic policy and ethics. That may not . . . [Full Text of this Article]