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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Ancient tales abound with parents striving yet failing to protect their children — or unwittingly even tragically hurting them.
Chapter 2: Vaccines alarm parents when linked to serious neurological and immune disorders.
Chapter 3: In many minds, vaccines are often connected with violence, sin, and impurity.
Chapter 4: For generations, people shunned vaccination, often perceiving the illness or vaccine as linked to an 'unsavory' group.
Chapter 5: A widespread misconception holds that vaccines are unnatural.
Chapter 6: Vaccines are sometimes seen as coercive acts of power and oppression.
Chapter 7: War metaphors pervade discussions of vaccines and the immune system.
Chapter 8: A vaccine affects not just the child, but the whole community.
Chapter 9: For most infections, dangers clearly far surpass the moderate risks of vaccines.
Description
Being afraid that vaccinating our children creates more harm than good isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s a fear informed by numerous cultural narratives. On Immunity looks at the different historical myths and metaphors in the vaccination debate, and presents statistics on vaccination’s effects.
Who Should Listen
- Parents who are unsure whether or not to vaccinate their child
- Anyone who is interested in the cultural history of vaccination
- Anyone who’s heard Jenny McCarthy say that vaccinations are dangerous