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Vaccines, vital for two centuries, govern our health, societies, and gatherings. A story at once of a few and one of all humanity,
Life Before and After Vaccines portrays what life was like without the vaccines that many take for granted, highlighting the collective responsibility to preserve this crucial aspect of human safety.
List of contents
Chapter One: Viruses Are Not Our Friends. They Hate Children And Everyone Else.
Chapter Two: They Bombed Cotton Mather's House
Chapter Three: The Founding Fathers Were Intensely Pro Vaccine: You'd Be Too If You Had Children Die of Smallpox
Chapter Four: Summering With Polio: Life Before the Modern Childhood Vaccination Schedule
Chapter Five: The Cutter Incident and The Swine Flu Epidemic That Never Happened: Making Vaccines and Making the Occasional Mistake
Chapter Six: Maurice Hilleman and His Chickens Save Millions of People a Year
Chapter Seven: The Drive to the Pediatrician's Office is More Dangerous Than Any Vaccine
Chapter Eight: Some Vaccines are Profitable. Some Are Not. We Can Do a Better Job Providing Access to All of Them.
Chapter Nine: The Man Who Made Parenting Harder: The Story of Andrew Wakefield
Chapter Ten: Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Devoting His Life to Cheering On Preventable Diseases?
Chapter Eleven: The Anti Vaccination Industry Profits From Spreading Lies on Social Media
Chapter Twelve: A Vaccine For Type I Diabetes: Why We Might Have Cures For Diseases That Still Terrify Us Today
Chapter Thirteen: Vaccine Voices: Speaking Out For Public Health
Chapter Fourteen: Combating Vaccine Hesitancy And Applauding Those Who Go For It: How to Convince People Needless Suffering is a Truly Bad Idea
Chapter Fifteen: I Would Get This Vaccine in My Eyeball: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rescued Us All
Chapter Sixteen: Diseases Don't Stand Still. Neither Does Vaccine Science.
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About the Author
About the author
Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer and public health advocate based in New Jersey. Herlihy is a Shot@Life Champion and founder of New Jersey Parents For Vaccines. Herlihy's books include
Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), which was a finalist for
Foreword Reviews Book of the Year,
Teens and Smoking: Your Questions Answered (2020), and
Corporations That Changed the World: Disney (2022).
