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 .
- Critical issues in health and medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.