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Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is Professor of History at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. Dr. Warsh has published books on the history of asylums, women's health, children's health, consumerism, and alcohol and drug use. She served as long-term editor-in-chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History and was co-editor of Gender & History. Dr. Warsh was a Fulbright Fellow, AMS/Hannah Fellow, and the inaugural recipient of the Vancouver Island University Distinguished Researcher Award. In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to Canadian medical history.
"The monumental biography of Frances Oldham Kelsey that students of regulation, medicine and pharmaceuticals have long needed. Warsh meticulously narrates Kelsey's remarkable career before the thalidomide tragedy and demonstrates her influence well after it. * Daniel Carpenter, author of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University * A biography of Frances Oldham Kelsey has been long overdue and Cheryl Walsh's broad exploration of Kelsey's life and her long career as a public servant does not disappoint. Relying on personal papers as well as professional records and oral histories, she portrays the ""canny Scottish lass"" from Canada not only as a woman with friends, family, allies, and detractors, but also as a regulatory professional. Kelsey was often portrayed as a female combatant during the thalidomide crisis, but her role in helping to implement the powerful new law governing new drug approvals, swept into law in the wake of a worldwide tragedy, is not well known, and Walsh makes an important contribution to the history of FDA and the broader history of medicine by including this in her understanding of the trajectory of Frances Kelsey's entire career. * Suzanne Junod, FDA historian, retired *"
