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Author Largent, Mark A., author.

Title Keep out of reach of children : Reye's syndrome, aspirin, and the politics of public health / by Mark A. Largent.

Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages .)
Series Bellevue literary press pathography
Bellevue Literary Press pathography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A modern medical mystery about an illness that ravaged healthy children, changed policy, and vanished before a cause was found"--Provided by publisher.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; 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; Chapter Ten: The Politics of Public Health; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Subject Reye's syndrome -- Etiology.
Aspirin.
Public health -- Political aspects.
Reye Syndrome -- etiology.
Aspirin -- adverse effects.
Child.
History, 20th Century.
Politics.
Public Health -- history.
Reye Syndrome -- history.
Aspirin -- Adverse effects.
Baba, Nanny, 1950- Child.
History, 20th Century.
Politics.
Public health -- History.
Reye syndrome -- Etiology.
Reye's syndrome -- History.
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Other Form: Print version: Largent, Mark A. Keep out of reach of children. 9781934137888 193413788X (DLC) 2014036493
ISBN 1934137898 (electronic bk.)
9781934137895 (electronic bk.)
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