Bendectin and Birth Defects

The Challenges of Mass Toxic Substances Litigation

Michael D. Green (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

1998
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-1645-5 (ISBN)

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Benedictin was prescribed to more than thirty-five million American women from its introduction in 1956 until 1983, when it was withdrawn from the market. The drug's manufacturer, Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, a major U.S. pharmaceutical firm, joined a list of other companies whose product liabilities would result in precedent-setting litigation. Before it was over, the Benedictin litigation would involve 2,000 claimants over a fifteen-year period. Michael D. Green offers a comprehensive overview of the Benedictin case and highlights many of the key issues in mass toxic substances litigation, comparing individual and collective forms of litigation, and illustrating the misunderstandings between scientists and lawyers about the role of science in providing evidence for the legal system.

Michael D. Green is Professor of Law at the University of Iowa.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1-A Birth Defect Child Is Born

Chapter 2-Locating Bendectin within the Mass Toxic Landscape

Chapter 3-The Science of Determining Toxic Causation

Chapter 4-The Food and Drug Administration

Chapter 5-The Wm. S. Merrell Company

Chapter 6-A Mother's Quest

Chapter 7-The Mekdeci Case

Chapter 8-The Unraveling of Mekdeci

Chapter 9-The Proliferation of Bendectin Litigation

Chapter 10-Litigating a Multidistrict Case

Chapter 11-The Withdrawal of Bendectin

Chapter 12-Forging a Mass Toxic Substances Trial

Chapter 13-The Settlement and Unsettlement of MDL-486

Chapter 14-The MDL-486 Trial

Chapter 15-Aggregative Procedure in Mass Toxic Substances Litigation

Chapter 16-The Third Phase of Bendectin Litigation: Oxendine, Richardson, and the Individual Trials

Chapter 17-The Legacy of Bendectin for Toxic Causation Law

Chapter 18-The Lessons and Non-Lessons of Bendectin Litigation

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1998
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-8122-1645-8 / 0812216458
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-1645-5 / 9780812216455
Zustand	Neuware