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

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“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal

In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly beg...