# 8.7 References for Reading 1

Fitzpatrick, M. (2004) Chapter 8 ‘The Lancet Paper’ taken from MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know, London, Routledge. Copyright © 2004 Michael Fitzpatrick.

Note: Internet sites originally accessed between January and December 2003.

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Aitken, K.J. (2001b) ‘Q&A’ at http://www.singlevaccines.com/ken-aitken1.html.

Arlett, P., Bryan, P. (2001) ‘A response to “MMR: through a glass, darkly” by Drs A.J. Wakefield and S.M. Montgomery and published reviewers’ comments’, Adverse Drug Reactions and Toxicological Review; 20 (1): pp. 37–45.

Bandolier (2002) ‘MMR vaccination’ at http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band84/MMR.html.

Brown, D.W.G., Jin, L., Ramsay, M. (2002) ‘Comments on abstract submission’, Infectious Diseases in the News (27 June), London: Public Health Laboratory Service (http://www.phls.org.uk/press).

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Fitzpatrick, M. (1998) ‘How now mad cow?’ in I. McCalman with B. Penny and M. Cook (eds.), Mad Cows and Modernity: Cross disciplinary reflections on the crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Humanities Research Centre Monograph Series No. 13, Canberra: Australian National University.

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Madsen, K.M., Hvidd, A., Vestergaard, M., Schendel, D., Wohlfart, J., Thorsen, P., Olsen, J., Melbye, M. (2002) ‘A population-based study of MMR vaccine and autism’, New England Journal of Medicine; 347: pp. 1477–82.

Miller, D.L., Madge, N., Diamond, J., Wadsworth, J., Ross, E. (1993) ‘Pertussis immunisation and serious acute neurological illnesses in children’, British Medical Journal; 307: pp.1171–6.

Miller, E., Andrews, N. (2001) ‘Comments on “MMR: through a glass darkly”’ (http://www.phls.co.uk/facts/Vaccination/012201wakefield.htm).

Mills, H. (2002) MMR: The story so far, Private Eye Special Report, London: Private Eye.

Moses, V. (2002) ‘Chewing over GM food’, spiked-online, 5 February, http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D3EF.htm.

Moynihan, R., Heath I., Henry D. (2002) ‘Selling Sickness: The pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering’, British Medical Journal; 324:pp.886–91.

MRC (Medical Research Council) (1998) ‘Group concluded no reason for change in MMR vaccine policy’, Press Release Ref: 09/98, London: MRC.

Murch, S., Thomson, M., Walker-Smith, J.A. (1998) ‘Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine’ (Correspondence: authors’ reply), Lancet; 351: p.908.

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Phillips, M. (2003) ‘MMR: the truth’, Daily Mail, 11–13 March.

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Shiels, O., Smyth, P., Martin, C., O'Leary, J.J. (2002) ‘Development of an ‘allelic discrimination’ type assay to differentiate between the strain origins of measles virus detected in intestinal tissue of children with ileocolonic lymphonodular hyperplasia and concomitant developmental disorder’. Abstract (No 20) presented at Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (http://www.pathsoc.org.uk/meet/prog.shtml).

Taylor, B., Miller, E., Farrington, C.P., Petropooulos, M.-C., Favot-Mayaud, I., Li, J. Waight, P.A. (1999a) ‘Autism and MMR vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association’, Lancet; 353: pp.2026–9.

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Wakefield, A.J., Montgomery, S.M. (2000) ‘MMR vaccine: through a glass darkly’, Adverse Drug Reactions and Toxicology Reviews; 19: pp.265–83.

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Wakefield, A.J. (2002b) Visceral, Press release, November, in response to Madsen et al. (2002) at http://www.visceral.org.uk.

Wakefield, A.J., Murch, S.M., Anthony, A., Linnell, J., Casson, D.M., Malik, M., Berelowitz, M., Dhillon, A.P., Thomson, M.A., Harvey, P., Valentine, A., Davies, S.E., Walker-Smith, J.A. (1998) ‘Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children’, Lancet; 351: pp.637–41.

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