Genesis: The Birth of the FDA in the Patent Office

dc.contributor.advisor	Hutt, Peter Barton	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Donnelly, John V.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-17T14:49:40Z
dc.date.issued	1999
dc.identifier.citation	Genesis: The Birth of the FDA in the Patent Office (1999 Third Year Paper)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9414572
dc.description.abstract	The FDA did not take its current form until 1938. Prior to that it had gone through a period in which its power and purpose evolved as the needs and desires of the American public changed. In this paper, I seek to trace the origin of the FDA, from 1837, when Henry Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, decided that the federal government should undertake to further the public's knowledge of agriculture, through 1862, when the United States Department of Agriculture was created by Congress. Due to the voluminous nature of the annual Reports of the Commissioner of Patents and the dearth of secondary sources, I have decided to focus my analysis on the powerful words of the Commissioners themselves as they were presented to Congress in the yearly reports.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	Food and Drug Law	en_US
dc.subject	FDA	en_US
dc.subject	history	en_US
dc.subject	General Background	en_US
dc.subject	Early Regulation of Food And Drugs	en_US
dc.title	Genesis: The Birth of the FDA in the Patent Office	en_US
dc.type	Paper (for course/seminar/workshop)	en_US
dc.date.available	2012-08-17T14:49:40Z
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