Callous disregard : autism and vaccines -- the truth behind a tragedy / Andrew J. Wakefield.

  • Wakefield, Andrew J.
Date:
[2017]
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Autism and vaccines : the truth behind a tragedy

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"Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that disease, leaving millions of children to suffer and a world at risk. In 1995, Dr. Andrew Wakefield came to a fork in the road. As an academic gastroenterologist at the Royal Free School of Medicine and the University of London, he was confronted by a professional challenge and a moral choice. Previously healthy children were, according to their parents, regressing into autism and developing intestinal problems. Many parents blamed the MMR vaccine. Trusting his medical training, the parental narrative, and, above all, the instinct of mothers for their children's well-being, he chose what would become a very difficult road. Dr. Wakefield provides the facts and an explanation of the problem that confronted him and his colleagues fifteen years ago. He does this in a detailed forensic analysis of the lies, obfuscation, cover-up, and dystopian science and medicine that panders to commercial interests at the expense of your children."-- Unedited summary from page 4 of cover.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]

Physical description

vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

"This book is composed of a series of essays that deal with the now infamous paper - a humble case series - written by doctors at the Royal Free Hospital and published in 'The Lancet' in February 1998. The essays were originally intended to stand alone and some repetition is evitable."--Page 3.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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  • 9781510729667
  • 1510729666