Michael Fitzpatrick - NY Salon

Author of MMR and Autism, and The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle.

Michael Fitzpatrick has been a general practitioner in East London for the past twenty years, after training at Oxford and the Middlesex. He has written on a wide range of medical and political subjects, including Aids, addictions and health scares for both medical publications and the mainstream media. He has written columns in The Lancet and the British Journal of General Practice, reviews for the British Medical Journal, Nature and Community Care and is a regular contributor to the on-line magazine, Spiked. He has also appeared frequently on radio and television, and in 1997 produced a critical programme on 'parenting' for the BBC. His book The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle was published by Routledge in 2001. His critique of complementary medicine is included in Alternative Medicine - Should We Swallow It?, published by the Institute of Ideas/Hodder and Stoughton in 2002. His latest book, MMR and Autism: What Parents Need To Know (Routledge) was published in 2004.

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