The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 The MMR controversy
  • 2 Background to the controversy
  • 3 Risk perception
  • 4 Single vaccines – the middle way?
  • 5 MMR and the media
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 Blair's babe
    • 5.3 The expert patient
    • 5.4 Telling tales
  • 6 Everyone's interests
  • 7 Concluding remarks
  • 8 Reading 1: The Lancet Paper
    • 8.1 Reading 1: The Lancet Paper
    • 8.2 An acrimonious debate
    • 8.3 MMR and the Medical Research Council
    • 8.4 Testing the MMR-autism hypothesis
    • 8.5 MMR safety
    • 8.6 Moving the goalposts
    • 8.7 References for Reading 1
  • 9 Reading 2: Communication and miscommunication of risk: understanding UK parents' attitudes to combined MMR vaccination
    • 9.1 Communication and miscommunication of risk
    • 9.2 Background
    • 9.3 Parents' responses to the risks
    • 9.4 Lessons from history
    • 9.5 What went wrong with MMR?
    • 9.6 Changing parents' perceptions
    • 9.7 References for Reading 2
  • 10 Reading 3: Towards a better map: Science, the public and the media
    • 10.1 Media coverage of the MMR controversy
    • 10.2 Media coverage of cloning and genetic medical research
    • 10.3 The media and the public understanding of science
    • 10.4 Trust
    • 10.5 Overall levels of scientific understanding
    • 10.6 What did we learn from media coverage between April and October?
    • 10.7 The media and public understanding of climate change
    • 10.8 The media and public understanding of the MMR controversy
    • 10.9 The media and public understanding of cloning and genetic medical research
    • 10.10 Conclusions
  • 11 Reading 4: The lessons of MMR
    • 11.1 The lessons of MMR
    • 11.2 Autism research
    • 11.3 Research integrity
    • 11.4 Vaccine safety
    • 11.5 Public engagement
    • 11.6 Publishing controversial new ideas
    • 11.7 References for Reading 4
  • Keep on learning
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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