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Herding immunity : the startling history of life before and after vaccines

2024

Format:	Book
Author:	Herlihy, Stacy Mintzer, 1970- author.
Title:	Herding immunity : the startling history of life before and after vaccines / Stacy Mintzer Herlihy.
Publisher, Date:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]
Description:	vii, 271 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:	"Vaccines, vital for two centuries, govern our health, societies, and gatherings. A story at once of a few and one of all humanity, Life Before and After Vaccines portrays what life was like without the vaccines that many take for granted, highlighting the collective responsibility to preserve this crucial aspect of human safety"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Immunization -- History. Herd immunity. Vaccination -- History.
Other Title:	Startling history of life before and after vaccines
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Viruses Are Not Our Friends. They Hate Children And Everyone Else. -- They Bombed Cotton Mather's House -- The Founding Fathers Were Intensely Pro Vaccine: You'd Be Too If You Had Children Die of Smallpox -- Summering With Polio: Life Before the Modern Childhood Vaccination Schedule -- The Cutter Incident and The Swine Flu Epidemic That Never Happened: Making Vaccines and Making the Occasional Mistake -- Maurice Hilleman and His Chickens Save Millions of People a Year -- The Drive to the Pediatrician's Office is More Dangerous Than Any Vaccine -- Some Vaccines are Profitable. Some Are Not. We Can Do a Better Job Providing Access to All of Them. -- The Man Who Made Parenting Harder: The Story of Andrew Wakefield -- Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Devoting His Life to Cheering On Preventable Diseases? -- The Anti Vaccination Industry Profits From Spreading Lies on Social Media -- A Vaccine For Type I Diabetes: Why We Might Have Cures For Diseases That Still Terrify Us Today -- Vaccine Voices: Speaking Out For Public Health -- Combating Vaccine Hesitancy And Applauding Those Who Go For It: How to Convince People Needless Suffering is a Truly Bad Idea -- I Would Get This Vaccine in My Eyeball: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rescued Us All -- Diseases Don't Stand Still. Neither Does Vaccine Science.
LCCN:	2024027599
ISBN:	9781538175439 hardcover 1538175436 hardcover * 9781538175446 electronic book
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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.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
Chapter 1	Viruses Are Not Our Friends: They Hate Children and Everyone Else	1
Chapter 2	They Bombed Cotton Mather's House	11
Chapter 3	The Founding Fathers Were Intensely Pro-Vaccine: You'd Be Too If You Had Children Die of Smallpox	23
Chapter 4	Summering with Polio: Life before the Modern Childhood Vaccination Schedule	37
Chapter 5	The Cutter Incident and the Swine Flu Epidemic That Never Happened: Making Vaccines and Making the Occasional Mistake	51
Chapter 6	Maurice Hilleman and His Chickens Save Millions of People a Year	65
Chapter 7	The Drive to the Pediatrician's Office Is More Dangerous than Any Vaccine	77
Chapter 8	Some Vaccines Are Profitable, Some Are Not: We Can Do a Better Job Providing Access to All of Them	89
Chapter 9	The Man Who Made Parenting Harder: The Story of Andrew Wakefield	101
Chapter 10	Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Devoting Hts Life to Cheering On Preventable Diseases?	113
Chapter 11	The Anti-vaccination Industry Profits from Spreading Lies on Social Media	127
Chapter 12	A Vaccine For Type 1 Diabetes: Why We Might Have Cures for Diseases That Still Terrify Us Today	143
Chapter 13	Vaccine Voices: Speaking Out for Public Health	155
Chapter 14	Combating Vaccine Hesitancy and Applauding Those Who Go for It: How to Convince People Needless Suffering Is a Truly Bad Idea	173
Chapter 15	I Would Get This Vaccine in My Eyeball: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rescued Us All	185
Chapter 16	Diseases Don't Stand Still, Neither Does Vaccine Science	203
	Notes	211
	Bibliography	239
	Index	261
	About the Author	271

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