Question: What is the profession of the subject of the 1983 book "Fatal Vision"?

Context articles: Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend
Fatal Vision controversy
Fatal Vision (goggles)
Fatal Vision (miniseries)
Robert Farris Thompson
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
John Howard (author)
Joe McGinniss
The Journalist and the Murderer
Fatal Vision (disambiguation)

Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend is a 1983 book by the political theorist Norman Geras, in which the author discussed Karl Marx's Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach and argued against the idea that Marx denied the existence of a universal human nature.
 Geras maintained that the concept of human nature is compatible with historical materialism.
 "Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend" is a classic discussion of the subject, and his conclusions have been endorsed by numerous scholars.
The controversy over Fatal Vision, journalist and author Joe McGinniss's best-selling 1983 true crime book, is a decades-long dispute spanning several court cases and discussed in several other published works.
Fatal Vision goggles are a line of training tools for simulating the effects of alcohol and drug intoxication without actually using these substances.
Fatal Vision is a 1984 American television miniseries based on the account, in the book of the same name, of the murders in 1970 at Fort Bragg of the wife and daughters of U.S. Army officer Jeffrey R. MacDonald.
Robert Farris Thompson (born December 30, 1932, El Paso, Texas) is an American historian and writer specialising in the art of Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world.
 He has been a member of the faculty at Yale University since 1965 and currently serves as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art.
 Thompson coined the term "black Atlantic" in his 1983 book "Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy" - the expanded subject of Paul Gilroy's book "The Black Atlantic".
Jeffrey Robert MacDonald (born October 12, 1943) is an American medical doctor who was convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970.
John Howard is an English author, born in London in 1961.
 His fiction has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and the collections "The Silver Voices", "Written by Daylight", and "Cities and Thrones and Powers".
 The majority of Howard's stories have central and eastern European settings; many are set in the fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte.
 "The Defeat of Grief" is a novella set in Steaua de Munte and the real Black Sea resort of Balcic; the novellas "The Fatal Vision" (in "Cities and Thrones and Powers") and "The Lustre of Time" form part of an ongoing series with Steaua de Munte architect and academic Cristian Luca as protagonist.
 "Numbered as Sand or the Stars" attempts a 'secret history' of Hungary between the World Wars.
Joseph R. McGinniss, Sr. (December 9, 1942 – March 10, 2014), known as Joe McGinniss, was an American non-fiction writer and novelist.
 The author of twelve books, he first came to prominence with the best-selling "The Selling of the President 1968" which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon.
 He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books — "Fatal Vision", "Blind Faith" and "Cruel Doubt" — which were adapted into TV miniseries in the 1980s and 90s.
 His last book was "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin", an account of Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee.
The Journalist and the Murderer is a study by Janet Malcolm about the ethics of journalism, published by Alfred A. Knopf/Random House in 1990.
 It is an examination of the professional choices that shape a work of non-fiction, as well as a rumination on the morality that underpins the journalistic enterprise.
 The journalist in question is Joe McGinniss; the murderer is the former Special Forces captain Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, who became the subject of McGinniss' 1983 book "Fatal Vision".
Fatal Vision is the 1983 true crime book by Joe McGinniss which lies at the center of the "Fatal Vision" controversy.