| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
children medication |
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children |
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drug safety |
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drug |
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drugs children |
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medication |
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pharmaceutical |
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pharmacy |
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pills |
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therapy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 30, 2018) |
| Subject |
Pediatric pharmacology -- History
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Drugs -- History
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Medical policy -- United States
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Children.
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Child
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Drug Therapy -- history
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History, 20th Century
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Health Policy -- history
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Drug and Narcotic Control -- history
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Drug Therapy -- standards
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children (people by age group)
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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LAW -- Medical Law & Legislation.
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Children
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Drugs
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Medical policy
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Pediatric pharmacology
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017022191 |
| ISBN |
9780813563893 |
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0813563895 |
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0813563887 |
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9780813563886 |
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9780813563879 |
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0813563879 |
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