Benedictin was prescribed to more than thirty-five million American women from its introduction in 1956 until 1983, when it was withdrawn from the market. The drug's manufacturer, Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, a major U.S. pharmaceutical firm, joined a list of other companies whose product liabilities would result in precedent-setting litigation. Before it was over, the Benedictin litigation would involve 2,000 claimants over a fifteen-year period. Michael D. Green offers a comprehensive overview of the Benedictin case and highlights many of the key issues in mass toxic substances litigation.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1-A Birth Defect Child Is Born
Chapter 2-Locating Bendectin within the Mass Toxic Landscape
Chapter 3-The Science of Determining Toxic Causation
Chapter 4-The Food and Drug Administration
Chapter 5-The Wm. S. Merrell Company
Chapter 6-A Mother's Quest
Chapter 7-The Mekdeci Case
Chapter 8-The Unraveling of Mekdeci
Chapter 9-The Proliferation of Bendectin Litigation
Chapter 10-Litigating a Multidistrict Case
Chapter 11-The Withdrawal of Bendectin
Chapter 12-Forging a Mass Toxic Substances Trial
Chapter 13-The Settlement and Unsettlement of MDL-486
Chapter 14-The MDL-486 Trial
Chapter 15-Aggregative Procedure in Mass Toxic Substances Litigation
Chapter 16-The Third Phase of Bendectin Litigation: Oxendine, Richardson, and the Individual Trials
Chapter 17-The Legacy of Bendectin for Toxic Causation Law
Chapter 18-The Lessons and Non-Lessons of Bendectin Litigation
Selected Bibliography
Index