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

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Basic Books, Mar 10, 2015 - Science - 304 pages
A renowned researcher vigorously challenges the anti-vaccine movement in this powerful defense of science in the face of fear.
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 The Birth of Fear
1
CHAPTER 2 This England
13
CHAPTER 3 A Crude Brew
25
CHAPTER 4 Roulette Redux
45
CHAPTER 5 Make the Angels Weep
57
CHAPTER 6 Justice
85
CHAPTER 7 Past Is Prologue
105
CHAPTER 8 Tragedy of the Commons
127
CHAPTER 10 Dr Bob
171
CHAPTER 11 Trust
191
EPILOGUE
207
NOTES
215
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
257
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
259
INDEX
261
Copyright

CHAPTER 9 The Mean Season
149

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About the author (2015)

Paul A. Offit, MD, is the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. A professor of vaccinology and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the author of several books, he lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

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