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Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America Hardcover – July 10, 2012

Author: Visit Amazon's Mark A. Largent Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1421406071 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Mark Largent brings a moving personal story, acute cultural observation, and deep historical scholarship to the festering and dangerous vaccine debate. His is a fresh new voice from which we can all learn much.

(Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D., Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Body Politic: The Battle over Science in America)

Any 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)

About the Author

Mark A. Largent is an associate professor and director of the Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy program at Michigan State University.

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• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (July 10, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421406071
• ISBN-13: 978-1421406077
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
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In Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America, Largent couples historical scholarship, keen cultural observations, and personal experiences in order to explore the American debate surrounding vaccination. Largent's engaging, provocative and compelling argument suggests that the debate about the science, safety and efficacy of vaccination is a proxy for a set of unaddressed underlying anxieties regarding vaccines; therefore, science is not enough to resolve it. The book sets out to explore these anxieties and understand where and how they originated. Largent's insightful observations provide ways in which the debate can be moved forward by addressing the anxieties parents have directly. Largent argues that by ignoring the underlying anxieties public health officials and vaccine advocates have misconstrued the reasons parents chose not to vaccinate or delay vaccination. Secondly, public health officials prefer to discuss the efficacy, and safety of vaccines because this is within their professional realm. Vaccine advocates often claim that ignorance is one of the reasons parents are anxious about vaccinating their children. They claim that this refusal to vaccinate is predicated by an ignorance of the severity of the diseases for which vaccines protect. Whereas, data demonstrates that the more educated parents are the more likely they are to have reservations about the recommended vaccine schedule. One of the most important observations made by Largent is that not all vaccines are the same thus recognizing that not all vaccines are equal could sooth the rhetoric of the debate and allow for a more fruitful discussion. Otherwise, parents who are anxious about the amount of vaccines or one specific vaccine may be pushed not to vaccinate at all.

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