Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy

423 Pages·2011·3.98 MB·English

by  Andrew J. Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy

Callous Disregard
Autism and Vaccines-The Truth Behind a
Tragedy
Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wakefield, Andrew J.

Callous disregard: Autism and vaccines—the truth behind a tragedy /
Andrew J. Wakefield.

p. ; cm.

Other title: Autism and vaccines—the truth behind a tragedy

Includes bibliographical references.
9781616081690
1. Autism in children--Etiology. 2. MMR vaccine--Side effects. I.
Lancet. II.
Title. III. Title: Autism and vaccines—the truth behind a tragedy.
[DNLM: 1. Autistic Disorder--etiology--Personal Narratives. 2. Child.
3. Health Policy--Personal Narratives. 4. Measles-Mumps-Rubella
Vaccine-adverse
effects--Personal Narratives. WM 203.5 W147c 2010]
RJ506.A9W353 2010
618.92’85882071--dc22
2010017228

Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to

my inspirational and long-suffering wife,

Carmel, and to our wonderful children,

James, Sam, Imogen, and Corin

- cherish your minds and use them well.

Acknowledgements
I would like to express my enormous gratitude to those directly
involved in the production of this book. They include my wife,
Carmel; my editor Teri Arranga; my designer Fiona Mayne; Jim
Moody with whom I co-wrote “Ethics, Evidence, and the Death of
Medicine,” which appears as the afterword to this book; Dr. Carol
Stott who assisted with Chapter 1; Polly Tommey for her support and
allowing access to her team and permission to reprint articles from
The Autism File; the editors of Age of Autism for permission to
reprint Chapter 13; Wendy Fournier for designing the website
www.callous-disregard.com; and all of those individuals and
organizations that have provided a link to this website. I am
particularly grateful to Dr. Peter Fletcher, Jenny McCarthy, and Jim
Moody for their commentaries as well as those providing additional
remarks. My thanks are also due to Tony Lyons of Skyhorse
Publishing and to Kim Stagliano for making the introduction.

Beyond this is an army of supporters and fellow travelers to whom I
am related by blood, sweat, and tears; my sincere thanks are
extended to you also.