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Kenneth Holler1, Anthony Scalzo
1Saint Louis University School of Medicine/SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, USA. hallerka@slu.edu
Abstract:
The Lancet's 1998 publication of "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" by Andrew Wakefield, et. al., positing a causal relationship between MMR vaccine and autism in children, set off a media storm and galvanized the anti-vaccine movement. In this paper, centuries-old fears of vaccination and the history of autism as a medical diagnosis are considered, and an affective, family-centered approach to dealing with parental fears by physicians is proposed.
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