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Children and drug safety : balancing risk and protection in twentieth century America / Cynthia A. Connolly.
LIBRA RJ560 .C66 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne), author.
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatric pharmacology.
- Drug Therapy--history.
- Child.
- Drug Therapy--standards.
- Drug and Narcotic Control--history.
- Health Policy--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Therapy--history.
- Child.
- Drug Therapy--standards.
- Drug and Narcotic Control--history.
- Health Policy--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 246 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne). Children and drug safety.
- ISBN:
- 9780813563886
- 0813563887
- 9780813563879
- 0813563879
- OCLC:
- 985646354
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