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MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know Paperback – 24 Jun. 2004

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The MMR controversy has been characterized by two one-sided discourses. In the medical world, the weight of opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of MMR. In the public world, the anti-MMR campaign has a much greater influence, centred on the fears of parents that the triple vaccine may cause autism in their children. Both professionals and parents struggle to cope with the anxieties this creates, but find it difficult to find a balanced account of the issues.

In MMR and Autism Michael Fitzpatrick, a general practitioner who is also the parent of an autistic child, explains why he believes the anti-MMR campaign is misguided in a way that will reassure parents considering vaccination and also relieve the anxieties of parents of autistic children. At the same time, this informative book provides health care professionals and health studies students with an accessible overview of a contemporary health issue with significant policy implications.

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0415321794
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978-0415321792
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First Edition
Publication date

24 Jun. 2004
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English
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13.79 x 1.37 x 21.59 cm
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218 pages
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'Michael Fitzpatrick splendidly demolishes the argument that MMR causes autism by careful review of the scientific and other evidence. He also provides an insightful review of autism and its management, together with the role of risk aversion in health scares like the MMR. Every health worker, parent, politician and journalist concerned with these issues must read this brilliant book.' - Brent Taylor, Professor of Community Child Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School

'Fitzpatrick ... offers a profound and wide-ranging account including politics, philosophy and rationality, science and medicine, the media, the medics, history and autism itself from both sides of the fence and indeed the fence itself. Erudite without obscurity, economical without dryness, I found his book a gripping read - and so did my wife, a non medic.' - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

'This book is a tour de force. Extensively researched and impeccably argued.' - Health Watch

'Dr Fitzpatrick's book on the MMR affair goes well beyond the affair itself, and casts a searchlight on our society, indeed on our soul.' - Dr Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph

'Michael Fitzpatrick is a general practitioner and also the parent of a child with autism. Fortunately he is also a very good writer and has produced a readable, well-discussed book about the MMR-autism saga. The book is informative, detailed, and accurate.' - International Journal of Epidemiology

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Michael Fitzpatrick is a general practitioner working in Hackney, London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; First Edition (24 Jun. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415321794
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415321792
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.79 x 1.37 x 21.59 cm

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Sir Hesket Newmarket

Well researched and readable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2018

Before buying any book on this polarising topic I would suggest the questions to ask aren't "does it support my pre-existing view of the debate?" but rather, "Does it provide citations? Does it declare any conflict of interests? Are it's conclusions backed by evidence?" Well that's what I wanted anyway. While anecdotal accounts can provide compelling illustrations of a topic, they cannot establish a causal connection between two events. It is difficult when talking about the lives of children, but a serious account must consider evidence over emotion and statistics over anecdotes. This book does just that and presents a worthwhile argument. It has several 1 star reviews. I read a few of them and drew my conclusions.

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Clair

Pity people actually pay for this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2010

The studies done by Wakefield have been rep[eated, confirmed and validated by a number of researchers around the world such as Urlmann et al, Gonzalez et al Fulano et al, O'Leary et al, Singh et al,Kawashima et al,Horvath et and al Bitnun et al to name a few. Also and most important children are recovering and have recovered from autism by focusing on healing the damage done in the gut by the MMR and cleaning the measles virus out of the lymph nodes. If vaccines don't cause damage this approach wouldn't work- AFRAID IT DOES! Us poor deluded parents with completly recovered kids!

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SMcM

appalling cynicism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2011

How disappointing to read the number of one star reviews from people about this book which, please remember, is written by the father of a child with autism who is also a GP.

If anyone genuinely believes that he is not in an ideal position to guide worried parents through the swathe of misinformation about MMR then I dont know who is.

An excellent book and the reason that it is relatively one sided is that the case against MMR has been completely demolished

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Dr Christopher Syn

Comprehensive review of how autism and MMR became linked

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2004

This is a very important book, which really does live up to its title, it does contain what 'every parent need to know '. In fact it contains a great deal more that they need to know and is arguably the most comprehensive and reliable discussion of the subject there, is as well as providing a useful summary of ideas about autism. ( Fitzpatrick himself is the father of an autistic child). Some may find the level of detail a bit overwhelming , but only by tracing it chronologically is it possible to grasp how the story developed and the peculiar way in which new claims have been added and others quietly dropped as they proved unsustainable even to Andrew Wakefield, the originator of the idea that autism and MMR were linked.
Fitzpatrick does not dismiss the views of those who claims a link between MMR and autisms out of hand but systematically goes through all their claims and shows how they just don't stand up to any rational analysis by which we make judgments and decisions about issues in normal life.
Yet it's remarkable how widespread these views now are, working in a hospital, I'm still amazed at the number of people who've smugly told me that there must be something in the link with autism but the advantages of the MMR vaccine outweigh the risks of not having it; well, this book shows quite clearly that there isn't anything in the link and it's not a question of balancing two opposing points of view.
In fact, the medical and political establishment doesn't come out of this story very well either and Fitzpatrick is right to point out their shortcomings. From the initial decision of the editor of the Lancet to publish what he considered at the time to be a poor paper (and launch it with a televised press conference) to Tony Blair, who gave the story a new lease of life by refusing to say whether his young son had been vaccinated, to the Department of Health and its experts, who have done their share of scare mongering with dire threats of impending epidemics yet who weren't even prepared to defend their point of view in the televised discussion after the drama 'Hear the silence' about Andrew Wakefield was screened on Channel 5. It's also amazing to note how many journalists have boosted their careers by latching on to this scare whenever it's flagged.
It may be that this particular story is now over, Andrew Wakefield has adopted an increasingly martyred posture, leaving a small group of followers to do his arguing for him, but it is still an important issue and you can be sure that there will be another issue along which will cause another panic. There are many lessons to be learnt from it and it is in this context that the epilogue to the book is particularly useful. It ranges from practical suggestions to fellow GP's on how to put a positive case for MMR without scaring worried patients, to a more general and thought provoking section on medicine and scientific research in an increasingly irrational and anxious age.

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John Scudamore

Medical (Allopathic) propaganda

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2011

Dr Fitzpatrick: "In the medical world, the weight of opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of MMR."

No surprise there, the vaccinators (medical world/Allopaths) are in favour of their own medicine! To paraphrase Mandy Rice Davis---'they would say that wouldn't they?'

They are hardly likely to open Pandora's box and say vaccines cause autism when we have 500,000 people with autistic spectrum disorders in the UK alone. The whole vaccine programme would collapse, along with all the vaccine drug companies! Not to mention the government health departments looking more than foolish.

they have even awarded vaccine autism, so that shoots a huge hole right through the centre of this book, eg Hannah Polling. And there are dozens of studies showing vaccine autism, along with many children who have recovered when they have had mercury (given in vaccines) removed from their body.

all studies showing vaccines don't cause autism have been taken apart as, at best, junk science []

And to finish it off read Silenced Witnesses: v.II: The Parents Story: The Denial of Vaccine Damage by Government, Corporations and the Media along with Callous Disregard Callous Disregard: Autisms and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy Autisms and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy

as to the myth we have all been saved by vaccines read: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins and Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners: Guide to Immunization Risks and Protection

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