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Reframing the Issue of Mandated Routine Childhood Immunizations

College of Our Lady of the Elms Chicopee, MA

Anthroposophic concepts (Holtzapfel, 1989) are applied to describe the effect of transient encephalopathy on the developing child as a result of routine mandated immunizations. Documented encephalopic reactions in three recent, unrelated immunization research studies, Bernstein et al. (1994), Paridiso et al. (1993), and Uhari (1993), experienced by children who received mandated routine childhood immunizations are examined and offered as supporting evidence to the casual acceptance of these symptoms which would otherwise cause alarm to practitioners in healthy children. Conflicting data from the literature on the risk-to-benefit ratio of immunization safety is also discussed. This paper offers the alternative practitioner insights into reframing the controversial issue of mandated routine childhood immunization and identifies children's reactions to immunizations as significant behavioral cues.

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, 211-216 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/153321019500100316


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