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

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 eff...

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Autore principale: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne) (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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Sommario:
  • 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.