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UNINA990008345100403321 |
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Federico 2. e la Sicilia / a cura di Pierre Toubert e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani |
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266 p. : [17] c. di tav. ; 25 cm |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910791459003321 |
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Offit Paul A |
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Autism's false prophets [[electronic resource] ] : bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure / / Paul A. Offit |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 |
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1-282-79643-7 |
9786612796432 |
0-231-51796-3 |
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[Pbk. ed. 2010.] |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Autism in children |
Autism - Etiology |
Medical misconceptions |
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Monografia |
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On cover: With a new preface by the author. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-284) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Tinderbox -- 2. Lighting the Fuse -- 3. The Implosion -- 4. A Precautionary Tale -- 5. Mercury Rising -- 6. Mercury Falling -- 7. Behind the Mercury Curtain -- 8. Science in Court -- 9. Science and the Media -- 10. Science and Society -- 11. A Place for Autism -- Epilogue: "Next, on Oprah" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. Consequently, a number of untested alternative therapies arose, and, most tragically, in one such treatment, a doctor injected a five-year-old autistic boy with a chemical in an effort to cleanse him of mercury, which stopped his heart instead. Children with autism have been placed on stringent diets, subjected to high-temperature saunas, bathed in magnetic clay, asked to swallow digestive enzymes and activated charcoal, and injected with various combinations of vitamins, minerals, and acids. Instead of helping, these therapies can hurt those who are most vulnerable, and particularly in the case of autism, they undermine childhood vaccination programs that have saved millions of lives. An overwhelming body of scientific evidence clearly shows that childhood vaccines are safe and does not cause autism. Yet widespread fear of vaccines on the part of parents persists. In this book, Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, challenges the modern-day false prophets who have so egregiously misled the public and exposes the opportunism of the lawyers, journalists, celebrities, and politicians who support them. Offit recounts the history of autism research and the exploitation of this tragic condition by advocates and zealots. He considers the manipulation of science in the popular media and the courtroom, and he explores why society is susceptible to the bad science and risky therapies put forward by many antivaccination activists. |
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UNINA9910969050603321 |
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Autore |
Luis-Brown David <1967-> |
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Waves of decolonization : discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States / / David Luis-Brown |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
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9786613065124 |
9781283065122 |
1283065126 |
9780822391463 |
0822391465 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Racism - Cuba - History |
Racism - Mexico - History |
Racism - United States - History |
Decolonization - Cuba - History |
Decolonization - Mexico - History |
Decolonization - United States - History |
Cuba Race relations History |
Mexico Race relations History |
United States Race relations History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index. |
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Introduction: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship -- "White slaves" and the "arrogant mestiza": reconfiguring whiteness in The squatter and the don and Ramona -- "The coming unities" in "our America": decolonization and anticolonial messianism in Marti, Du Bois, and the Santa de Cabora -- Transnationalisms against the state: contesting neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban negrismo, and Mexican indigenismo -- "Rising tides of color": ethnography and theories of race and migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston -- Coda: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship. |
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Explores why author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local struggles in relation to broader hemispheric and diasporic movements against imperialism and racial oppression. |
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