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Keep Out of Reach of Children : Reye’s Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health.

Largent, Mark A.

Keep Out of Reach of Children : Reye’s Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (273 pages) - Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies Series . - Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies Series .

Intro -- Table of 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.

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

9781934137895


Reye''s syndrome.
Public health -- Political aspects.
Aspirin.


Electronic books.

RJ520.R43 -- .L374 2015eb

618.928

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