TY  - GEN
AU  - Kelsey,Frances Oldham
TI  - Frances Oldham Kelsey papers,
KW  - Geiling, E. M. K.
KW  - Kelsey, F. E.
KW  - American Medical Association
KW  - United States
KW  - Food and Drug Administration
KW  - Division of Scientific Investigations
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Awards
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Testing
KW  - Medicine, Eclectic
KW  - Pharmaceutical policy
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - Quacks and quackery
KW  - Thalidomide
KW  - Pharmacologists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
N1  - Restrictions apply; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, reports. press releases, proceedings, research files, speeches, statements, studies, biographical material, background material and draft of a book, clippings, reprints, and other papers documenting Kelsey's career, particularly as a researcher and regulator investigating new drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration where she later served as director of the Division of Scientific Investigations.  Includes material on her refusal to approve commercial distribution of thalidomide in the United States, a decision for which she received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service in 1962.  Also includes articles written by Kelsey while an editorial associate for the American Medical Association (1950-1952) and background material and drafts for Essentials of Pharmacology (1960), a textbook she coauthored with E.M.K. Geiling and F.E. Kelsey.  Other topics include the testing of drugs, questionable cures for various diseases, quackery, and other aspects of drug regulation by the federal government
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009300
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009300.3
ER  -