Mark A Largent

Keep Out of Reach of Children

Reye's Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health

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Produktbeschreibung

A modern medical mystery about an illness that ravaged healthy children, changed policy, and vanished before a cause was found

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781934137888
• ISBN-10: 193413788X
• Artikelnr.: 40706606

Autorenporträt

Mark A. Largent is the author of Keep Out of Reach of Children: Reye’s Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health; Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America; and Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. He is a historian of science, Associate Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University, and Associate Dean in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University. He earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Program in the History of Science and Technology and has taught history of science, science policy, and American history classes at Michigan State, Oregon State, and the University of Puget Sound. He lives in Lansing, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Discovery of Reye?s Syndrome
Chapter Two: Toxins, the Obvious Cause
Chapter Three: The Deadly Mist
Chapter Four: The Front Line in the Battle Against Reye?s Syndrome
Chapter Five: The Aspirin Hypothesis
Chapter Six: The Aspirin Industry Responds
Chapter Seven: The Rise of Labels and the Fall of Reye?s
Chapter Eight: Labels, at Last
Chapter Nine: Triumph and Dissent
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Index