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Author Fitzpatrick, Michael, 1950-

Title MMR and autism : what parents need to know / Michael Fitzpatrick
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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 MELB  614.4708320941 Fit/Maa  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1 Introduction : what parents need to know -- pt. 1. How the risk society turned on its own children -- 2. The MMR debacle -- 3. The trouble with vaccines -- 4. Age of anxiety -- pt. 2. How parents turned against MMR -- 5. Autism and parents -- 6. Alternative autism -- 7. The campaign against MMR -- pt. 3. The problem of junk science -- 8. The Lancet paper -- 9. Missing links -- 10. The metamorphosis of Andrew Wakefield -- 11. Epilogue: what doctors need to do
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject MMR vaccine.
Autism in children -- Great Britain.
Vaccination of infants -- Complications -- Great Britain.
Combined vaccines.
Parents of autistic children -- Attitudes.
Vaccination of infants.
Vaccination -- Complications.
Autism in children.
Combined vaccines -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.
Combined vaccines -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
ISBN 0415321794 paperback
0415321786