balancing risk and protection in twentieth-century America /
Cynthia A. Connolly.
New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
1 online resource (vii, 246 pages)
Critical issues in health and medicine
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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.