Hazardous to Our Health? by Robert Higgs
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most powerful of federal regulatory agencies, if not the most powerful, regulating about 25 per cent of all consumer goods in the United States. It routinely makes decisions that determine the well-being of millions of people in the United States and around the world concerning foods, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. Although the FDA was created to protect the public, could its actual operations have the opposite effect, causing enormous harm to public health? Assembling the work of three outstanding scholars, Hazardous to Our Health? provides a lucid and comprehensive examination of the FDA: How has the FDA acquired its vast powers? What have been the effects of the FDA? Why has the FDA failed to achieve its goals? Who actually benefits and loses from the FDA? How has the FDA defended itself against criticism? What real alternatives exist to the FDA? and much more. Hazardous to Our Health? goes beyond mere assumptions, conjectures, and political predilections to examine the facts and findings of independent authorities. Providing far more than just an account of the past and a warning for the future, this powe
"This powerful book examines the issues from a rarely voiced and considered viewpointThe insights are provocative." -- Joel J. Nobel, M.D., president, Emergency Care Research Institute. "Adds invaluable insights into regulatory deficiencies and their possible solution." -- Luis Lasagna, M.D., dean, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University. "As Hazardous to Our Health? makes clear, the FDA's record is execrable. This book makes the case for individual freedom." -- The Freeman.
Robert Higgs is senior fellow in political economy at The Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, and Seattle University. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and was formerly a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. Among his other books are Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government and Arms, Politics and the Economy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780945999416 |
| ISBN 10 | 0945999410 |
| Title | Hazardous to Our Health? |
| Author | Robert Higgs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Independent Institute,U.S. |
| Year published | 1995-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 113 |
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