Dominique A. Tobbell is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine and the Graduate Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is also the oral historian for the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center History Project.

"Based on extensive research, Pills, Power, and Policy is intelligently written, and its points are illustrated with highly readable examples." Health Affairs "Tobbell contributes ... fine historical attention to the development of large pharmaceutical companies ... with a longer story of lobbying and politics." Times Higher Education "Pills, Power, and Policy is an important contribution to our understanding of the science and politics of the pharmaceutical industry." -- Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D. -- Yale University School of Medicine Inquiry "[A] well-researched and skillfully argued volume." -- Scott H. Podolsky, Harvard Medical School Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Pharmaceutical Politics, Then and Now Part I: Forging Pharmaceutical Relations 1. Knowledgeable Relations: The Building of a Pharmaceutical Research Network 2. Workforce Relations: The Invention of the Pharmaceutical Postdoctoral Fellowship 3. Professional Relations: Crafting the Public Image of the Health Care Team Part II: Allied against Reform 4. Cold War Alliances: Kefauver's Bid for Pharmaceutical Reform 5. Expert Alliances: The Creation of the Drug Research Board 6. Generic Alliances and the Backlash against Regulatory Reform Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index