"I've heard some things that scare me". Responding with empathy to parents' fears of vaccinations.
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Missouri medicine
دوره 109 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012