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Medicine and Health Sciences

Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)

Medicine – Research – Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics; Vaccination of children – Moral and ethical aspects; Vaccination of infants – Moral and ethical aspects

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Vaccines Controversy, Jackelin Ruiz, Keith Wellman Apr 2011

Vaccines Controversy, Jackelin Ruiz, Keith Wellman

Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)

Our research was conducted on a Vaccine controversy which raised the question on ethics, morality, safety and effectiveness of vaccination on children. The case study we focused on was about a study done by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and twelve other Colleagues, which was published in a well know journal The Lancet. The study has recently been retracted because an investigation found that he failed to mention that his research of the MMR vaccine was funded through solicitors seeking evidence to use against vaccine manufactures (Deer, Brian). To conclude our research we compared the current vaccination rates with the rates …