Autism's False Prophets : Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

Offit, Paul

ISBN 10: 023114637X / ISBN 13: 9780231146371

Editore: Columbia University Press, 2010

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Riassunto:

Looks at the history of autism research and argues that the media and advocates have mislead the public in their declaration that childhood vaccinations are the cause of autism.

Informazioni sull'autore: Paul A. Offit, MD, FAAP is the chief of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has received numerous awards, including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. An international expert on rotavirus-specific immune responses, Dr. Offit is the coinventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq, for which he received the Jonas Salk Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Gold Medal from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Stanley A. Plotkin Award in Vaccinology from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He has donated all royalties from sales of this book to autism research.

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Titolo: Autism's False Prophets : Bad Science, Risky...
Casa editrice: Columbia University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: 1st Edition.