Your Baby''s Best Shot - Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives

Guides readers in understanding why they should vaccinate, emphasizing the importance of herd immunity and explaining how the anti-vaccine movement misleads the public on this important issue.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stacy Mintzer Herlihy & E Allison Hagood, E. Allison Hagood, Hagood E. Allison, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy, Stacy Mintzer Hagood Herlihy
• Assisted by: Offit Paul A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442215795
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1579-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Popular medicine & health, Child care & upbringing, Advice on parenting, Pharmacology, Children’s health, Parenting: advice and issues, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents