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October 21, 2009

Wired cover story on autism quotes UCSF anthropologist

UCSF medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman, PhD, in the School of Nursing, is featured in Wired magazine’s November cover story, which focuses on the concern that vaccines cause autism. Kaufman talks about the public’s changing relationship to and increasing intolerance for risk, as well as the growing perception that the risk of death, illness, or accident is an individual’s responsibility to reduce or eliminate. 

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1