Deadly Choices

Author: Paul A. Offit
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B005HKUA4O

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there.
Powered by Frooition Pro Click here to view full size. Full Size Image Click to close full size. Deadly Choices [9780465021499] - Book NEW Author(s): Paul A. Offit Format: Hardcover # Pages: 270 ISBN-13: 9780465021499 Published: 12/28/2010 Language: English Weight: 1.06 pounds Discusses the damages caused by the anti-vaccine movement and argues the necessity of vaccinations for children to prevent such diseases as measles, mumps, and whooping cough. About Us Payment Shipping Customer Service FA
On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents.How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror? The answer is rooted in one of the most powerful citizen activist movements in our nation's history. In Deadly Choices, infectious disease expert Paul Offit relates the shocking story of anti-vaccine America--its origins, leaders, influences, and impact. Offering strategies to keep us from returning to an era when children routinely died from infecti

Deadly Choices

How did we get to a place where160;vaccines are viewed with horror160;rather than as life-saving medicine?160;The answer is rooted in one of the160;most powerful and disturbing citizen160;activist movements in our nationrsquo;s160;historymdash;a movement that, despite160;recent epidemics and deaths,160;continues to grow. Deadly Choices is160;the story of anti-vaccine activity in160;Americamdash;its origins, leaders,160;influences, and impactmdash;and is a160;powerful defense of science in the160;face of fear.

Deadly Choices : Hardback : The Perseus Books Group : 9780465021499 : 0465021492 : 17 Mar 2011 : There's a war going on out there - a silent, dangerous war. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, how they overwhelm the immune system. Then, they watch their children get as many as 26 vaccines, sometimes five at a time.

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On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents.How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror? The answer is rooted in one of the most powerful citizen activist movements in our nation's history. In Deadly Choices, infectious disease expert Paul Offit relates the shocking story of anti-vaccine America--its origins, leaders, influences, and impact
n one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents.How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror? The answer is rooted in one of the most powerful citizen activist movements in our nation's history. In Deadly Choices, infectious disease expert Paul Offit relates the shocking story of anti-vaccine America--its origins, leaders, influences, and impact. Offering strategies to keep us from returning to an era when children routinely died from infecti