Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813563886)

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

$150.00

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

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association​

Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book 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.

Each chapter of Children and Drug Safety engages with major turning points in pediatric drug development; themes of children's risk, rights, protection and the evolving context of childhood; child-rearing; and family life in ways freighted with nuances of race, class, and gender. Cynthia A. Connolly charts the numerous attempts by Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and leading pediatric pharmacologists, scientists, clinicians, and parents to address a situation that all found untenable.


Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Author: Cynthia A. Connolly
ISBN-10: 0813563887
ISBN-13: 9780813563886
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2018
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.80w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2018
By Cynthia A. Connolly
By Cynthia A. Connolly
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CYNTHIA A. CONNOLLY is a pediatric nurse and historian of children's health care. She is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she is the Rosemarie B. Greco Term Endowed Associate Professor in Advocacy. She is associate director at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, a faculty director at the Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice, and Research, and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, both at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (Rutgers University Press).

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