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On Immunity: An Inoculation
(Eula Biss)
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Eula Biss is the author of THE BALLOONISTS and NOTES FROM NO MAN'S LAND: AMERICAN ESSAYS, which received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her essays have appeared in THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING and THE BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION, as well as in the BELIEVER and HARPER'S. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Biss holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfictionwriting from the University of Iowa. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.
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`ON IMMUNITY is brave because it will attract hostility from those she implies are selfish or misguided in refusing to vaccinate. Her arguments are profoundly compelling, and her narratives are braided together with beauty and elegance. The book is itself an inoculation - it grafts and unites different traditions of the essay, and in doing so creates something stronger and more resilient. And its urgent message is an inoculation against ignorance and fearmongering: may it spread out through the world, bringing substance and common sense to the vaccination debate.' - Gavin Francis, GUARDIAN
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear- fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected- our bodies and our fates. 'Imagine Eula Biss as herself a vaccine against vague and incoherent thinking, as a booster to the acuity of your thought, as a thermometer taking the temperature of our ideas about purity, contagion, individuality, and community. This book is a magnificent piece of research and of writing.' - Rebecca Solnit Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780992974749
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