Author : John Phillip Ryan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483490041
"Compliant parents are one of the ghings Julianna loves most about her job. Thankfully, most patients listen to her. After all, she is a nurse who helps them deliver their most precious gifts in life: babies. yet even the most well-intentioned parents sometimes push back, especially when it comes to vaccinating their children."--Back cover.
Author : Arthur Allen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1324036354
"A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccination—from the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history illuminated by hope and shrouded by controversy, and he sheds new light on changing notions of health, risk, and the common good.
Author : Seth Mnookin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1439158657
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them.
Author : Robert W. Sears
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0316213632
***COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED IN 2019*** ***New Covid Chapter Added in 2023*** The Vaccine Book offers parents a fair, impartial, fact-based resource from the most trusted name in pediatrics. Dr. Bob devotes each chapter in the book to a disease/vaccine pair and offers a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible side effects from the vaccine. This completely revised edition offers: Updated information on each vaccine and disease More detail on vaccines' side effects Expanded discussions of combination vaccines A new section on adult vaccines Additional options for alternative vaccine schedules A guide to Canadian vaccinations The Vaccine Book provides exactly the information parents want and need as they make their way through the vaccination maze.
Author : Paul A. Offit
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465057969
A renowned researcher vigorously challenges the anti-vaccine movement in this powerful defense of science in the face of fear.
Author : Barry R. Bloom
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 012805400X
The Vaccine Book, Second Edition provides comprehensive information on the current and future state of vaccines. It reveals the scientific opportunities and potential impact of vaccines, including economic and ethical challenges, problems encountered when producing vaccines, how clinical vaccine trials are designed, and how to introduce vaccines into widespread use. Although vaccines are now available for many diseases, there are still challenges ahead for major diseases, such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. This book is designed for students, researchers, public health officials, and all others interested in increasing their understanding of vaccines. It answers common questions regarding the use of vaccines in the context of a rapidly expanding anti-vaccine environment. This new edition is completely updated and revised with new and unique topics, including new vaccines, problems of declining immunization rates, trust in vaccines, the vaccine hesitancy, and the social value of vaccines for the community vs. the individual child's risk. - Provides insights into diseases that could be prevented, along with the challenges facing research scientists in the world of vaccines - Gives new ideas about future vaccines and concepts - Introduces new vaccines and concepts - Gives ideas about challenges facing public and private industrial investors in the vaccine area - Discusses the problem of declining immunization rates and vaccine hesitancy
Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0190497629
On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.
Author : Paul A. Offit
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0231153074
Two leading advocates for modern vaccines answer parents' numerous questions about the underlying science of modern vaccines and the value of childhood immunization, while addressing parents' concerns about vaccine safety.
Author : Peter J. Hotez
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1421439808
"—from the foreword by Arthur L. Caplan, NYU School of Medicine
Author : Andrew W. Artenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2009-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1441911081
Why another book about vaccines? There are already a few extremely well-written medical textbooks that provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art technical reviews regarding vaccine science. Additionally, in the past decade alone, a number of engrossing, provocative books have been published on various related issues ra- ing from vaccines against specific diseases to vaccine safety and policy. Yet there remains a significant gap in the literature – the history of vaccines. Vaccines: A Biography seeks to fill a void in the extant literature by focusing on the history of vaccines and in so doing, recounts the social, cultural, and scientific history of vaccines; it places them within their natural, historical context. The book traces the lineage – the “biography” – of individual vaccines, originating with deeply rooted medical problems and evolving to an eventual conclusion. Nonetheless, these are not “biographies” in the traditional sense; they do not trace an individual’s growth and development. Instead, they follow an idea as it is conceived and dev- oped, through the contributions of many. These are epic stories of discovery, of risk-takers, of individuals advancing medical science, in the words of the famous physical scientist Isaac Newton, “by standing on the shoulders of giants. ” One grant reviewer described the book’s concept as “triumphalist”; although meant as an indictment, this is only partially inaccurate.
