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Autism's False Prophets : Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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