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A fascinating history of a public health crisis. Compellingly written and insightful, Keep Out of Reach of Children traces the discovery of Reyes syndrome, research into its causes, industrys efforts to avoid warning labels on one suspected cause, aspirin, and the feared diseases sudden disappearance. Largents empathy is with the myriad children and parents harmed by the disease, while he challenges the triumphalist view that labeling solved the crisis. ERIK M. CONWAY, coauthor of Merchants of Doubt Largents engaging and honest account explores how medical mysteries are shaped by prevailing narratives about venal drug companies, heroic investigators, and Johnny-come-lately politicians. HELEN EPSTEIN, author of The Invisible Cure Fascinating. . . . Thought-provoking.
About the Author
Mark Largent is an Associate Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University, Associate Dean in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University, and directs the Science, Technology, Environment and Public Policy Specialization. He earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota's Program in the History of Science and Technology in 2000 and has taught history of science, science policy, and American history classes at Michigan State, Oregon State, and the University of Puget Sound. His first book, Breeding Contempt, explores the history of compulsory sterilization in the United States. In 2012 he published Vaccine: The Modern American Debate, which traces the emergence of parents' current concerns about the modern vaccine schedule. Most recently, his third book, Keep Out of Reach of Children: Reye's Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health was published by Bellevue Literary Press.
