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Article: Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case.
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- Independent Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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In this concise, insightful, and inadvertently amusing book, Marcia Angell chronicles the background and history of the silicone breast implant debacle. In lucid language that both lay readers and scholars can appreciate, Angell shows that there is no scientific evidence that silicone breast implants are really dangerous, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned them anyway in 1992 in response to political and cultural pressures. The ban then triggered the largest tidal wave of tort litigation in history and instilled unwarranted fears and anxiety in approximately 2 million women who have implants. Angell provides a thoughtful analysis of the clash between ...