Autism's False Prophets : : Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure /

Autism's False Prophets : : Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure / / Paul Offit.

A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If me...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Offit, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Tinderbox
  • 2. Lighting the Fuse
  • 3. The Implosion
  • 4. A Precautionary Tale
  • 5. Mercury Rising
  • 6. Mercury Falling
  • 7. Behind the Mercury Curtain
  • 8. Science in Court
  • 9. Science and the Media
  • 10. Science and Society
  • 11. A Place for Autism
  • Epilogue: "Next, on Oprah"
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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