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

Offit, Paul A., MD

 
9780231146371: Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Softcover
ISBN 10: 023114637X ISBN 13: 9780231146371
Verlag: Columbia Univers. Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Columbia Univers. Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
023114637X
ISBN 13 
9780231146371
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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