Autism's false prophets : bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure / Paul A. Offit.
2010
RJ506.A9 O34 2010eb
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Title
Autism's false prophets : bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure / Paul A. Offit.
Author
Edition
Paperback edition.
ISBN
9780231517966 (electronic bk.)
0231517963 (electronic bk.)
023114637X
9780231146371
9780231146371
0231517963 (electronic bk.)
023114637X
9780231146371
9780231146371
Imprint
New York ; Chichester, West Sussex : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Other Standard Identifiers
9780231146371
Call Number
RJ506.A9 O34 2010eb
Distributor No.
EB00639819 Recorded Books
System Control No.
(OCoLC)694142893
Summary
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 mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. Consequently, a number of untested alternative therapies arose, and, most tragically, in one such treatment, a doctor injected a five-year-old autistic boy with a chemical in an effort to cleanse him.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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."
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."
Awards
PSP Prose Awards (nominated), 2008
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Offit, Paul A. Autism's false prophets. Paperback edition. New York ; Chichester, West Sussex : Columbia University Press, 2010
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