Trusted, children and aspirin : a deadly dance of science, business, and politics, Karen M. Starko
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Trusted, children and aspirin : a deadly dance of science, business, and politics, Karen M. Starko
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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illustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
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Trusted
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bibliography
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Karen M. Starko
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children and aspirin : a deadly dance of science, business, and politics
Summary
Trusted is the tale of finding the cause of Reye's syndrome, a devastating and mysterious illness described by Dr R.D.K. Reye and colleagues at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown, Sydney in 1963. Trusted is a non-fiction, memoir-expose of Karen Starko's discovery of aspirin as the cause and history of this decades-long, twentieth-century tragedy. Karen Starko's work was met with intense skepticism and even after it was replicated again and again, politics delayed solutions every step of the way. Before her discovery, thousands of children and teens had died and tens of thousands had been hospitalised in the United States in addition to untold numbers around the world. Trusted exposes this nightmare: the inception, the perpetrators, the believers and disbelievers, and the unsung heroes
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adult
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