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

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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 eff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pediatric pharmacology.
Medical policy.
Drugs.
Children.
LAW > Medical Law & Legislation.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
children (people by age group)
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Enfants.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
Medicaments > Histoire.
Pharmacologie pediatrique > Histoire.
Drug Therapy > standards
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
Health Policy > history
History, 20th Century
Drug Therapy > history
Child
Medical policy > United States.
Drugs > History.
Pediatric pharmacology > History.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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