Stacy Mintzer Herlihy, E. Allison Hagood

Your Baby's Best Shot

Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Parent's Guide to Vaccines helps readers understand why they should vaccinate. Using the latest science in the field, the authors make it clear exactly why vaccination is the right choice. They also emphasize the importance of herd immunity. Finally, the book explains how the anti-vaccine movement misleads the public on this important issue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781442215795
• ISBN-10: 1442215798
• Artikelnr.: 41315112

Autorenporträt

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer for publications such as The Dollar Stretcher, Austin Woman Magazine, Big Apple Parent, New Jersey County Family Magazine, ComputorEdge Magazine, and Pediatrics For Parents.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1: Who we are and why we wrote this book 2: The Edward Jenner
Story: A brief history of the first vaccine. 3: How Vaccines Work 4: Of
Bananas and Formaldehyde or What the Heck IS in Them? 5: A Real Mother: The
World Before Vaccines 6: The Worst Case Scenario: True Adverse Reactions 7:
Vaccines And Autism: The Creation Of A Modern Myth 8: Autism: A Brief
Discussion Of The Facts 9: The Geiers and Other Autism Myth-Makers 10:
Asthma, ADHD, and Allergies: More Medical Myths 11: The Good, the Bad, and
The Ugly: The Online World 12: Other Vaccine Myths and Facts 13:
Modern Developments in Vaccine Technology: The Story of the HPV Vaccine 14:
Parenting's Easiest Decision Notes Bibliography