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Yarkin:
Author interview with Celina Yarkin, February 10, 2010.
Yarkin:
Author interview with Celina Yarkin, February 10, 2010.
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Flint:
E. Carlyle, “Rare Hib Disease Increases in Minnesota: Is the AntiVaccine Movement to Blame?”
City Pages: The News and Arts Weekly of the Twin Cities
, June 3, 2009; L. Szabo, “Missed Vaccines Weaken ‘Herd Immunity’ in Children,”
USA Today
, January 6, 2010.
Flint:
E. Carlyle, “Rare Hib Disease Increases in Minnesota: Is the AntiVaccine Movement to Blame?”
City Pages: The News and Arts Weekly of the Twin Cities
, June 3, 2009; L. Szabo, “Missed Vaccines Weaken ‘Herd Immunity’ in Children,”
USA Today
, January 6, 2010.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank T. J. Kelleher for his wisdom, humor, scientific knowledge, and deft editorial hand; Andrew Zack for guiding me through the narrow streets of the publishing business; Bojana Ristich and Christine Arden for their lessons on logic, style, and form; Erica Johnson for her research assistance; Patrick Fitzgerald, Susan Martin, Don Mitchell, John O’Brien, Carl Offit, Bonnie Offit, Emily Offit, and Will Offit for their careful reading of the manuscript; and Jennifer Bard-well, Jeff Bergelson, Samuel Berkovic, Matt Carey, James Cherry, Kristen Feemster, Mark Feinberg, David Gorski, Lawrence Gostin, Penny Heaton, Alan Hinman, Phil Johnson, Matthew Kronman, Gary Marshall, Charlotte Moser, Sheila Nolan, Glen Nowak, Walter Orenstein, Georges Peter, Larry Pickering, Amy Pisani, Stanley Plotkin, Lisa Randall, Ken Reibel, Lance Rodewald, Lucy Rorke-Adams, John Salamone, David Salisbury, William Schaffner, Jason Schwartz, Alison Singer, Michael Smith, Mike Stanton, Kirsten Thistle, Dan Thomasch, Tom Vernon, Deborah Wexler, Margaret Williams, and Karie Youngdahl for their recollections of the vaccine controversy as well as their expertise.
I would also like to acknowledge the bravery of Ira Flatow, John Hamilton, Gardiner Harris, Claudia Kalb, Ron Lin, Anita Manning, Chris Mooney, Anahad O’Connor, Jon Palfreman, Rahul Parikh, Amanda Peet, Ami Schmitz, Nancy Snyderman, Michael Specter, Travis Stork, John Stossel, Liz Szabo, Trine Tsouderos, and Amy Wallace for their willingness to stand up for the science of vaccine safety independent of the cost.
INDEX
AAP.
See
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
See
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Aaronovitch, David
ACIP.
See
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
See
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
ACVL.
See
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League (ACVL)
See
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League (ACVL)
Adams, Lucy Rorke
Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Alaska, measles outbreak
Alba, Jessica
Alexander, Hattie
Allergic reactions, to vaccines
Allopathic medicine
Aloudat, Tammam
Alternative medicine, lure of
Althen, Margaret
Aluminum, in vaccines
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
American Experience
(television program)
(television program)
American Medical Association
American Medical Liberty League
Angstadt, Lauren
Anthrax
Antibodies
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination Act
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League (ACVL)
Anti-Vaccination League
Anti-Vaccination League of America
Anti-vaccine movement/activists
birth of modern American
CDC and
celebrities and
choosing not to vaccinate
conspiracy theories and
differences between 19th-century and modern movements
DPT: Vaccine Roulette
and
and
in England
Healy and
lawyers and
marketing strategy
mass marketing and
pharmaceutical companies and
rejection of germ theory
religious beliefs and
similarities between 19th-century and modern movements
smallpox vaccine and
themes
vaccine advocates and
Antivaccine philosophy, Steiner and
Anti-vaccine rallies/protests
Arizona
measles outbreak
pertussis outbreak
Arkansas, measles outbreak
Aschoff, Ludwig
Asher, Evan
Asher, John
Association of Parents of Vaccine-Damaged Children
Attkisson, Sharyl
Autism
cures advanced for
McCarthy and
mercury in vaccines (thimerosal) and
MMR vaccine and
Omnibus Autism Proceeding
vaccines and
Autism Action Coalition
Autism Speaks
Avard, Ronald
Azidothymidine
Bacterial meningitis
Baker, Josephine
Ballard, Henry
Banks, Bailey
Baraff, Larry
Barr, Richard
Bazell, Robert
BCG (Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin) vaccine
Behar, Joy
Belkin, Lyla
Belkin, Michael
Berg, Anna
Berkovic, Samuel
Bernier, Roger
“Bill to Further Extend and Make
Compulsory the Practice of
Vaccination,”
Blaylock, Russell
Bonthrone, Iris
Bonthrone, John
Bonthrone, Richard
Bordetella pertussis
Boston Daily Globe
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
Bradstreet, Jeff
Brain damage, pertussis vaccine and
Brain Research Institute
Brandt, Edward
Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
British Medical Association
British Medical Journal
(journal)
(journal)
British Pediatric Association
Brooklyn Compulsory Anti-Vaccination League
Brown, Charles
Bumpers, Betty
Bumpers, Dale
Burns, James B.
Burton, Susan
Byers, Randolph
Byers, Vera
Byline: Lea Thompson
(television program)
(television program)
California, measles outbreaks
Calmette, Albert
Campbell, Meagan
Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization
Canby, Vincent
Capizzano, Rose
The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children
(Virtue)
(Virtue)
Carlson, Sybil
Carrey, Jim, as anti-vaccine activist
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Rosalynn
CBS Evening News
(television program)
(television program)
CDC.
See
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
See
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Cedillo, Michelle
Cedillo, Theresa and Michael
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