Your Baby's Best Shot
Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives
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- USD 29.99
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- USD 29.99
Descripción editorial
Parents can easily be bombarded by conflicting messages about vaccines a dozen times each week. One side argues that vaccines are a necessary public health measure that protects children against dangerous and potentially deadly diseases. The other side vociferously maintains that vaccines are nothing more than a sop to pharmaceutical companies, and that the diseases they allegedly help prevent are nothing more than minor annoyances. An ordinary parent may have no idea where to turn to find accurate information.
Your Baby’s Best Shot is written for the parent who does not have a background in science, research, or medicine, and who is confused and overwhelmed by the massive amount of information regarding the issue of child vaccines. New parents are worried about the decisions that they are making regarding their children’s health, and this work helps them wade through the information they receive in order to help them understand that vaccinating their child is actually one of the simplest and smartest decisions that they can make.
Covering such topics as vaccine ingredients, how vaccines work, what can happen when populations don’t vaccinate their children, and the controversies surrounding supposed links to autism, allergies, and asthma, the authors provide an overview of the field in an easy to understand guide for parents.
In an age when autism diagnoses remain on the rise, when a single infectious individual can help spark an epidemic in three countries, when doctors routinely administer an often bewildering array of shots, and when parents swear their babies were fine until their first dosage of the MMR, the authors hope this book will serve as a crucial resource to help parents understand this vitally important issue.
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Journalist Herlihy and psychologist Hagood dispute the many myths surrounding vaccines in this extensively researched and forceful pro-vaccine text. The book covers a range of topics, including the history of vaccines and their ingredients, as well as detailed descriptions of vaccine-preventable diseases (chicken pox, diphtheria, Hib, mumps, whooping cough). The authors also defend against anti-vaccine arguments, devoting several chapters to the "myth" surrounding a link between vaccinations and autism, and exploring the cognitive biases that have fueled the vaccine backlash. While millions have been "wasted" investigating a link between autism and vaccines, they warn, vaccine rates are falling and vaccine-preventable diseases are on the rise. They also defend the new (and controversial) HPV vaccine. The authors claim that while anti-vaccination foes distort information, present false data, and use scare-tactics, scientific research readily proves that vaccines are safe. Although there is always risk of a vaccine-related reaction (an unwanted side effect which can be mild, moderate or, less commonly, severe), they contend that the chances of contracting a life-threatening disease and the danger to the community-at-large is far greater. Indisputably pro-vaccine, this resource will aid parents as they make decisions about vaccinating their children.