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Body Language
Constance Studer
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Description for Body Language
Paperback. In 2007, one child out of 150 suffers from autism or other neurological-cognitive disabilities. This book is a plea to the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex to ban the use of thimerosal in the production of vaccines and to re-evaluate the number of vaccines administered to infants and children. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Constance Studer uses her family's story to illustrate larger ethical dilemmas in which modem medical professionals find themselves. The history of why prefrontal lobotomies were performed on patients is explored and why only a few physicians raised dissenting voices to this mutilating surgery. Both the author and her father were injured by medical treatments that were intended to help. Her father's lobotomy caused irreversible brain damage. Connie's vaccine-related illness caused systemic lupus. She cites an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. which investigates the US government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal. Thimerosal, the ethylmercury preservative used in vaccine preparation, appears ... Read more
Constance Studer uses her family's story to illustrate larger ethical dilemmas in which modem medical professionals find themselves. The history of why prefrontal lobotomies were performed on patients is explored and why only a few physicians raised dissenting voices to this mutilating surgery. Both the author and her father were injured by medical treatments that were intended to help. Her father's lobotomy caused irreversible brain damage. Connie's vaccine-related illness caused systemic lupus. She cites an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. which investigates the US government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal. Thimerosal, the ethylmercury preservative used in vaccine preparation, appears ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535160
SKU
V9781557535160
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Constance Studer
Constance Studer, M.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Constance draws upon her twenty years' experience as a registered nurse in her book, Body Language. Her book of poetry, Prayer To A Purple God, was published in 1996 and reissued in hardback in 2004.
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