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 d...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York ; Chichester, West Sussex :
Columbia University Press,
2010.
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Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The tinderbox
- Lighting the fuse
- The implosion
- A precautionary tale
- Mercury rising
- Mercury falling
- Behind the mercury curtain
- Science in court
- Science and the media
- Science and society
- A place for autism
- Epilogue: "Next, on Oprah."