Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction - Softcover

Offit M.D., Paul; Moser, Charlotte

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9780231153072: Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction
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ISBN 10: 0231153074 ISBN 13: 9780231153072
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks.

Offit and Moser address parental fears that children may receive too many vaccines too early, that the HPV vaccine may cause chronic fatigue or other dangerous side effects, that additives and preservatives in vaccines cause autism, and that vaccines might do more harm than good. There couldn't be a better moment or more pressing need for this book, which offers honesty—instead of hype—in the quest to protect children's health.

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About the Author

Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231153074
ISBN 13 
9780231153072
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264
Rating
  • 3.99 out of 5 stars
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