Wonder Drug - Jennifer Vanderbes

Wonder Drug

The Hidden Victims of America’s Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2023
Harpercollins (Verlag)
978-0-00-829570-7 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction

The shocking, never-before-told story of America’s thalidomide victims



In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She was the first victim of the notorious thalidomide epidemic. There would be over 10,000 more across 46 countries.


For years the world believed the United States had avoided the catastrophe. After Frances Kelsey at the Food and Drug Administration became suspicious of the dangers of thalidomide in 1960, she led a successful fight to block its commercial approval.


But now, having probed government and corporate archives and interviewed hundreds of key players, Jennifer Vanderbes reveals a darker truth that lay buried for decades. The toxic sedative ostensibly ‘never sold’ in America was widely distributed for over five years under the guise of clinical trials, reaching hundreds of pregnant women. Scores of American babies were, in fact, born with birth defects likely caused by the drug.


Wonder Drug gives a voice to these hidden victims of the twentieth century’s biggest medical scandal, shedding light on the deceptive practices of Big Pharma that still endanger lives around the world today.

Jennifer Vanderbes is an award-winning novelist, journalist and screenwriter. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Atlantic. She was named a 2019–20 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar for her work on Wonder Drug.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-00-829570-0 / 0008295700
ISBN-13 978-0-00-829570-7 / 9780008295707
Zustand Neuware
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