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• Title:MMR and autism : what parents need to know / Michael Fitzpatrick.
  
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• Variant Title:Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism
  
• Author/Creator:Fitzpatrick, Michael, 1950-
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM203.5 .F5394 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Autism in children--Great Britain.
  Vaccination of infants--Complications--Great Britain.
  Combined vaccines--Great Britain--Public opinion.
  Combined vaccines--Government policy--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects:Autistic Disorder--etiology--Great Britain.
  Mass Media--Great Britain.
  Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine--adverse effects--Great Britain.
  Public Opinion--Great Britain.
  Vaccination--Infant--Great Britain.
  
• Description:xiv, 218 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:"Speculation that MMR - the combined vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella - may be a cause of autism in children has provoked fierce controversy and widespread anxiety." "Though medical opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of MMR, the campaign against the vaccine has made many parents worried and confused. Both professionals and parents struggle to cope with the resulting anxieties and fears and find it difficult to get a balanced account of the issues." "In MMR and Autism Michael Fitzpatrick, a general practitioner who is also the parent of an autistic child, explains why he believes the anti-MMR campaign is misguided in a way that will reassure parents considering vaccination and also relieve the continued anxieties of parents of autistic children. At the same time the book provides healthcare professionals and health studies students with an accessible overview of a contemporary health and media issue with significant policy implications."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-207) and index.
  
• ISBN:0415321786
  0415321794 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:I. Introduction : what parents need to know
  1. How the risk society turned on its own children
  2. MMR debacle
  3. trouble with vaccines
  4. Age of anxiety
  II. How parents turned against MMR
  5. Autism and parents
  6. Alternative autism
  7. campaign against MMR
  III. problem of junk science
  8. Lancet paper
  9. Missing links
  10. metamorphosis of Andrew Wakefield
  11. Epilogue : what doctors need to do.