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Vaccine : the debate in modern America / Mark A. Largent.

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Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Largent, Mark A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Vaccination of children > United States.
Vaccination > Complications > United States.
Vaccines > United States.
Vaccines > Health aspects > United States.
Immunization of children > Complications > United States.
Immunization of children > Complications.
Vaccination > Complications.
Vaccination of children.
Vaccines.
Vaccines > Health aspects.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Risk and reward
  • 2. Sources of doubt
  • 3. Thimerosal and autism
  • 4. MMR and autism
  • 5. Science and the celebrity
  • 6. Getting to the source of anxiety
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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