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Herding Immunity
The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
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About this book
A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come.
In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy integrates modern conversations and reveals the profound impact vaccines have had on our society, highlighting the urgent need for societal change to ensure equitable vaccination for all.
In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy integrates modern conversations and reveals the profound impact vaccines have had on our society, highlighting the urgent need for societal change to ensure equitable vaccination for all.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Viruses Are Not Our Friends: They Hate Children and Everyone Else
- Chapter 2 They Bombed Cotton Mather’s House
- Chapter 3 The Founding Fathers Were Intensely Pro-Vaccine: You’d Be Too If You Had Children Die of Smallpox
- Chapter 4 Summering with Polio: Life before the Modern Childhood Vaccination Schedule
- Chapter 5 The Cutter Incident and the Swine Flu Epidemic That Never Happened: Making Vaccines and Making the Occasional Mistake
- Chapter 6 Maurice Hilleman and His Chickens Save Millions of People a Year
- Chapter 7 The Drive to the Pediatrician’s Office Is More Dangerous than Any Vaccine
- Chapter 8 Some Vaccines Are Profitable, Some Are Not: We Can Do a Better Job Providing Access to All of Them
- Chapter 9 The Man Who Made Parenting Harder: The Story of Andrew Wakefield
- Chapter 10 Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Devoting His Life to Cheering On Preventable Diseases?
- Chapter 11 The Anti-vaccination Industry Profits from Spreading Lies on Social Media
- Chapter 12 A Vaccine For Type 1 Diabetes: Why We Might Have Cures for Diseases That Still Terrify Us Today
- Chapter 13 Vaccine Voices: Speaking Out for Public Health
- Chapter 14 Combating Vaccine Hesitancy and Applauding Those Who Go for It: How to Convince People Needless Suffering Is a Truly Bad Idea
- Chapter 15 I Would Get This Vaccine in My Eyeball: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rescued Us All
- Chapter 16 Diseases Don’t Stand Still, Neither Does Vaccine Science
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author