| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 246 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pediatric pharmacology -- History.
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Pediatric pharmacology. |
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History. |
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Drugs -- History.
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Drugs. |
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medical policy. |
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United States. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Medication. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne). Children and drug safety. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018] 9780813563886 (DLC) 2017021379 |
| ISBN |
9780813563893 (electronic book) |
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0813563895 (electronic book) |
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9780813575230 |
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0813575230 |
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9780813563886 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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