{"product_id":"children-and-drug-safety-balancing-risk-and-protection-in-twentieth-century-america-hardback-9780813563886","title":"Children and Drug Safety; Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America (Hardback) 9780813563886","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBalancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCynthia A Connolly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813563886\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, 8\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Cynthia Connolly, in this brilliant piece of scholarship, demonstrates not only that drug safety in children has often driven key moments in pharmaceutical regulation, but that issues regarding the logistics, ethics, and market priorities of testing pharmaceuticals in children have evolved and endured for over a century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Scott Podolsky (Harvard Medical School and author of The Antibiotic Era) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Cynthia Connolly, in this brilliant piece of scholarship, demonstrates not only that drug safety in children has often driven key moments in pharmaceutical regulation, but that issues regarding the logistics, ethics, and market priorities of testing pharmaceuticals in children have evolved and endured for over a century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Scott Podolsky (Harvard Medical School and author of The Antibiotic Era) \u003cdiv\u003e\"By exploring the historical context of children and drug therapy, Connolly is the first to link the historiography of pharmaceuticals with the history of childhood and health care. \u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e is timely and will make significant contributions to scholarship in the history of health care.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Heather Prescott (author of The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States) \u003cdiv\u003e\"By exploring the historical context of children and drug therapy, Connolly is the first to link the historiography of pharmaceuticals with the history of childhood and health care. \u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e is timely and will make significant contributions to scholarship in the history of health care.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Heather Prescott (author of The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States) \u003cdiv\u003eMaking children’s medicines tasty makes the experience of being sick less stressful for kids, and helps doctors and parents get kids to take them peacefully. But there is also the danger, if they are too tasty, that kids will consume them in secret, and overdose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Children’s aspirin is a stark example of that. St. Joseph Aspirin for Children was released in 1947. It was orange-colored and orange-flavored and often advertised as “candy aspirin.” And “within a few years of its introduction, the incidence of aspirin poisoning in young children increased dramatically, almost five hundred percent,” writes Cynthia Connolly, a professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the history of pediatric health care. “I, myself, am a former aspirin-poisoned child,” Connolly told me. It happened in 1961 or 1962, when she was 3 or 4 years old, she says. “My parents kept it up high because they knew I loved it. It had a wonderful granular taste; it tastes like a SweeTart. One time when they weren’t looking, I got up there and got the St. Joseph Aspirin for Children, took almost the whole bottle, and then fell off the counter and broke my arm. While still holding the medicine by the way.” Her parents found her when she screamed, and she had to go to the hospital and get her stomach pumped-and her arm set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dangers of candy aspirin led to the development of the safety cap, Connolly writes. And the pharmaceutical industry came to realize that it probably wasn’t a great idea to sell medicine as “candy.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Julie Beck (The Atlantic) \u003cdiv\u003eMaking children’s medicines tasty makes the experience of being sick less stressful for kids, and helps doctors and parents get kids to take them peacefully. But there is also the danger, if they are too tasty, that kids will consume them in secret, and overdose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Children’s aspirin is a stark example of that. St. Joseph Aspirin for Children was released in 1947. It was orange-colored and orange-flavored and often advertised as “candy aspirin.” And “within a few years of its introduction, the incidence of aspirin poisoning in young children increased dramatically, almost five hundred percent,” writes Cynthia Connolly, a professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the history of pediatric health care. “I, myself, am a former aspirin-poisoned child,” Connolly told me. It happened in 1961 or 1962, when she was 3 or 4 years old, she says. “My parents kept it up high because they knew I loved it. It had a wonderful granular taste; it tastes like a SweeTart. One time when they weren’t looking, I got up there and got the St. Joseph Aspirin for Children, took almost the whole bottle, and then fell off the counter and broke my arm. While still holding the medicine by the way.” Her parents found her when she screamed, and she had to go to the hospital and get her stomach pumped-and her arm set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dangers of candy aspirin led to the development of the safety cap, Connolly writes. And the pharmaceutical industry came to realize that it probably wasn’t a great idea to sell medicine as “candy.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Julie Beck (The Atlantic) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/aspirin-poisoning-saftey-caps-history-medication-for-children\"'\u003e‘Candy aspirin,’ safety caps, and the history of children’s drugs: excerpt of \u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e by Cynthia Connolly on Penn Today\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Penn Today) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/aspirin-poisoning-saftey-caps-history-medication-for-children\"'\u003e‘Candy aspirin,’ safety caps, and the history of children’s drugs: excerpt of \u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e by Cynthia Connolly on Penn Today\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Penn Today) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-June-8-2018\/243561\"'\u003e\"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,\" by Nina C. Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-June-8-2018\/243561\"'\u003e\"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,\" by Nina C. Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a succinct, well-organized topical and chronological exploration of child health research and social welfare policy debates and related legislation from the late-19th through the early-21st century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a succinct, well-organized topical and chronological exploration of child health research and social welfare policy debates and related legislation from the late-19th through the early-21st century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely readable and surprisingly enjoyable book that adds nuance to our understanding of the history of pediatrics, medicine, and pharmacy.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Pharmacy in History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely readable and surprisingly enjoyable book that adds nuance to our understanding of the history of pediatrics, medicine, and pharmacy.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Pharmacy in History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[The book] demonstrates a deep understanding of the technical details of pediatric care that reflects the author’s own professional expertise in this area....[and] constitutes a valuable and sobering introduction to the history of American child drug safety debates during the twentieth century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[The book] demonstrates a deep understanding of the technical details of pediatric care that reflects the author’s own professional expertise in this area....[and] constitutes a valuable and sobering introduction to the history of American child drug safety debates during the twentieth century.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Each chapter of \u003ci\u003eChildren and Drug Safety\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpen access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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\/ \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e 1. Drug Therapy: From “\u003cbr\u003eBaby Killers”\u003cbr\u003e to Baby Savers, 1906–\u003cbr\u003e1933    \u003cbr\u003e 2. New Drugs, Old Problems in Pediatrics: From Therapeutic Nihilism to the Antibiotic Era, 1933–\u003cbr\u003e1945          \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Child as Drug Development Problem and Business Opportunity in a New Era, 1945-1961\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Growth and Development of the Therapeutic Orphan: 1961-1979\u003cbr\u003e 5. A “\u003cbr\u003eBig Business Built for Little Customers:”\u003cbr\u003e Candy Aspirin, Children, and Poisoning, 1947–\u003cbr\u003e1976\u003cbr\u003e 6. Children and Psychopharmacology in Postwar America                   \u003cbr\u003e 7. Pediatric Drug Development and Policy after 1979                          \u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements                                                                                       \u003cbr\u003e Notes                                                                                                              \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559335686424,"sku":"9780813563886","price":87.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/children-and-drug-safety-balancing-risk-and-protection-in-twentieth-century-america-hardback-9780813563886","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}