Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America

Children and Drug Safety Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America

Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Connolly, Cynthia A, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press 2018
[2018]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Materias:
History, 20th Century
Health Policy > history
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
Drug Therapy > standards
Child
Drug Therapy > history
United States
children medication.
children.
drug safety.
drug.
drugs children.
medication.
pharmaceutical.
pharmacy.
pills.
therapy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Drug Therapy: From "Baby Killers" to Baby Savers, 1906-1933
  • 2. New Drugs, Old Problems in Pediatrics: From Therapeutic Nihilism to the Antibiotic Era, 1933-1945
  • 3. The Child as Drug Development Problem and Business Opportunity in a New Era, 1945-1961
  • 4. The Growth and Development of the Therapeutic Orphan, 1961-1979
  • 5. A "Big Business Built for Little Customers": Candy Aspirin, Children, and Poisoning, 1947-1976
  • 6. Children and Psychopharmacology in Postwar America
  • 7. Pediatric Drug Development and Policy after 1979
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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