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Author:

Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne), author.

Title:

Children and drug safety : balancing risk and protection in twentieth century America / Cynthia A. Connolly.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vii, 246 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Pediatric pharmacology.
Drug Therapy--history.
Child.
Drug Therapy--standards.
Drug and Narcotic Control--history.
Health Policy--history.
History, 20th Century.
United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Drug therapy : from "baby killers" to baby savers, 1906-1933 -- New drugs, old problems in pediatrics : from therapeutic nihilism to the antibiotic era, 1933-1945 -- The child as drug development problem and business opportunity in a new era, 1945-1961 -- The growth and development of the therapeutic orphan : 1961-1979 -- A "big business built for little customers:" candy aspirin, children, and poisoning, 1947-1976 -- Children and psychopharmacology in postwar America -- Pediatric drug development and policy after 1979.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine

ISBN:

0813563879
9780813563879
0813563887
9780813563886

LCCN:

2017021379

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)