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Book SynopsisThis book disentangles competing claims, opens the controversy for critical reflection, and provides recommendations for moving forward.
Trade ReviewAny health collection catering to parents, health professional or the general public needs this fine survey of the history and contentions of the vaccine debate. Midwest Book Review This is an important book in the context of the current vaccine wars. Every pediatrician and pediatric specialist should not only read this book but also take to heart its message. -- Roger A. Brumback Journal of Child Neurology This book provides a fantastic overview of both sides of the vaccine debate... This knowledge and understanding could improve [physician's] success in alleviating concerns for parents with anxiety toward vaccinatino of their children. -- Sarah S. Nyp Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Largent's fluid prose makes this 222-page book an easy read. It will interest vaccine proponents and detractors alike, along with parents and policymakers who have questions about the long list of mandated vaccines, and health professionals who must explain benefits and risks to anxious parents. Life Sciences In an era of polarized debate over vaccines-as over so much else- Vaccine can potentially lead us toward a promised land of dialogue and substantially greater mutual understanding. -- Robert D. Johnston Isis An important overview of scientific research on the safety and side effects of vaccination. Largent also incorporates his own decisions about his daughter's vaccinations as an example of how one parent has navigated the competing claims about vaccines... Parents need to educate themselves and make well-informed decisions about their children's vaccinations. -- Andrea Rusnock Nature Medicine Largent's reasoned, evidence based exploration is a worthy and important contribution to a public debate too often built upon flimsy claims and perpetuated by hyperbole. -- Sarah Glassford Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Risk and Reward
2. Sources of Doubt
3. Thimerosal and Autism
4. MMR and Autism
5. Science and the Celebrity
6. Getting to the Source of Anxiety
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
