Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America / Cynthia A. Connolly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicine | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813563893
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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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

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