Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Jennifer Vanderbes

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivorsIn 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exc...

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