Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America /
Connolly, Cynthia A.
Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America / Cynthia A. Connolly. - 1 online resource (260 pages). - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance--many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
9780813563893
Pediatric pharmacology.
Medical policy.
Drugs.
Children.
LAW--Medical Law & Legislation.
MEDICAL--Pharmacology.
children (people by age group)
Medecine--Histoire--20e siecle.
Enfants.
Politique sanitaire--États-Unis.
Medicaments--Histoire.
Pharmacologie pediatrique--Histoire.
Drug Therapy--standards
Drug and Narcotic Control--history
Health Policy--history
History, 20th Century
Drug Therapy--history
Child
Children.
Medical policy--United States.
Drugs--History.
Pediatric pharmacology--History.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America / Cynthia A. Connolly. - 1 online resource (260 pages). - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance--many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
9780813563893
Pediatric pharmacology.
Medical policy.
Drugs.
Children.
LAW--Medical Law & Legislation.
MEDICAL--Pharmacology.
children (people by age group)
Medecine--Histoire--20e siecle.
Enfants.
Politique sanitaire--États-Unis.
Medicaments--Histoire.
Pharmacologie pediatrique--Histoire.
Drug Therapy--standards
Drug and Narcotic Control--history
Health Policy--history
History, 20th Century
Drug Therapy--history
Child
Children.
Medical policy--United States.
Drugs--History.
Pediatric pharmacology--History.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.