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Published Dec 2010
288 pages
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment
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There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles - the diseases of their grandparents.
How did anyone come to view vaccines with horror? The answer is rooted in one of the most powerful citizen activist movements in our nation's history. In Deadly Choices, infectious disease expert Paul Offit relates the shocking story of anti-vaccine America - its origins, leaders, influences, and impact. Offering strategies to keep us from returning to an era when children routinely died from infections, Deadly Choices is a vigorous and definitive rebuttal of the powerful anti-vaccine movement.
"Starred Review. [A] smart, hard-hitting exposé of vaccine pseudoscience. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to anti-vaccine fear-mongering." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. Offit takes aim at the anti-vaccine movement in America and scores a bull’s-eye.... A much-needed book with solid evidence – deserves all the publicity it can get." - Kirkus
"Starred Review. Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral." - Booklist
"In a meticulously researched tour de force, Offit exposes the lack of science underlying the claims of the anti-vaccine movement...every doctor’s office should have a copy of Offit’s book, giving parents the other side of the story." - Science News
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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. Offit is a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation.
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