Deadly Choices : How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
ISBN: 9780465029624 | 0465029620
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Pub. Date: 4/1/2012
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A renowned researcher vigorously challenges the anti-vaccine movement in this powerful defense of science in the face of fear.
There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents. How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror... MORE
There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents. How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror... MORE
| Prologue | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| The Birth of Fear | p. 1 |
| This England | p. 13 |
| A Crude Brew | p. 25 |
| Roulette Redux | p. 45 |
| Make the Angels Weep | p. 57 |
| Justice | p. 85 |
| Past Is Prologue | p. 105 |
| Tragedy of the Commons | p. 127 |
| The Mean Season | p. 149 |
| Dr. Bob | p. 171 | ... MORE
| Trust | p. 191 |
| Epilogue | p. 207 |
| Notes | p. 215 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 255 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 259 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Paul A. Offit, M.D., is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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