Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

Author/Contributor(s):	Feemster, Kristen A
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Date:	11/02/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) offers a scientifically grounded overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally. Aiming to offer an unbiased resource on this hotly debated subject, it provides accessible, authoritative overviews of the following:

- How vaccines work
- The history of vaccines
- Vaccine policy -- who writes it, and does it matter?
- The contents and manufacture of vaccines
- Vaccine injury
- The alleged link between vaccines and autism
- Vaccines and new outbreaks

Written by a leading authority in both infectious disease and vaccine education, this book offers a clear-eyed resource for parents or anyone with an interest in the use, efficacy, and controversy surrounding vaccines. In a subject area defined by partisanship, it offers reliable resource for what everyone needs to know.