A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly IndustryPublicAffairs, 21 mar 2002 - 512 páginas Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone -- inside the industry or out -- who posed a problem. They had a whole lot of money to spend. And they were good at getting people to do what they wanted them to do. After all, they had already convinced millions of Americans to take up an addictive, unhealthy, and potentially deadly habit. David Kessler didn't care about all that. In this book he tells for the first time the thrilling detective story of how the underdog FDA -- while safeguarding the nation's food, drugs, and blood supply -- finally decided to take on one of the world's most powerful opponents, and how it won. Like A Civil Action or And the Band Played On, A Question of Intent weaves together science, law, and fascinating characters to tell an important and often unexpectedly moving story. We follow Kessler's team of investigators as they race to find the clues that will allow the FDA to assert jurisdiction over cigarettes, while the tobacco companies and their lawyers fight back -- hard. Full of insider information and drama, told with wit, and animated by its author's moral passion, A Question of Intent reads like a Grisham thriller, with one exception -- everything in it is true. |
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... told by FDA field inspectors captured the sentiment within the agency. “The FDA is like one of those giant clowns carried in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade,” it went. “The body, moving under cover, is the agency itself. The head ...
... told by FDA field inspectors captured the sentiment within the agency. “The FDA is like one of those giant clowns carried in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade,” it went. “The body, moving under cover, is the agency itself. The head ...
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... told to look for another job. In typical fashion, Jeff chose one of the toughest jobs in Washington: he came to work for the beleaguered FDA. Now we sat together in a tiny cubicle. Jeff realized that I was thinking of replacing him with ...
... told to look for another job. In typical fashion, Jeff chose one of the toughest jobs in Washington: he came to work for the beleaguered FDA. Now we sat together in a tiny cubicle. Jeff realized that I was thinking of replacing him with ...
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... told the police that she had taken a Sudafed capsule from a box that her husband, Joseph, had purchased the week before. The interview also revealed a troubled marriage, including a 911 call to police three days before Christmas, 1990 ...
... told the police that she had taken a Sudafed capsule from a box that her husband, Joseph, had purchased the week before. The interview also revealed a troubled marriage, including a 911 call to police three days before Christmas, 1990 ...
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... told him what had to be done. Within a few hours, we had issued a nationwide recall. Over the next few days, we found three packages of Sudafed capsules laced with cyanide. One was still on the drugstore shelves in Tacoma. The other two ...
... told him what had to be done. Within a few hours, we had issued a nationwide recall. Over the next few days, we found three packages of Sudafed capsules laced with cyanide. One was still on the drugstore shelves in Tacoma. The other two ...
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A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry David Kessler. WHEN I told Secretary Sullivan before my appointment as commissioner that I wanted to enforce the law, my words sounded so obvious as to seem banal, even to me. But the FDA ...
A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry David Kessler. WHEN I told Secretary Sullivan before my appointment as commissioner that I wanted to enforce the law, my words sounded so obvious as to seem banal, even to me. But the FDA ...
Índice
Part II The Investigation Begins | 95 |
Part III The Evidence Mounts | 165 |
Part IV Turning Deceit Aside | 261 |
Principal Characters | 395 |
Notes | 397 |
List of Author Interviews | 453 |
Readings | 461 |
Acknowledgments | 465 |
FDA Tobacco Team | 468 |
Index | 469 |
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A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry David Kessler Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry David Kessler Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry David Kessler Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
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