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A review by flowerwineandbooks
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
4.0
A non-fiction book that flowed more like a long essay. It wasn't too academic, but rather easily accessible. Biss does not hide from hard topics, like colonization, racism, classism, and the harsh realities of capitalism and how all these play into the adea of "health" being a privilege of a commodity in the world. Biss also does not demean or demonize those who choose not to vaccinate their children, rather explains from where they might be coming from using her own experience as a mother. Instead, Biss chooses to demonize those power hungry career misinformation perpetrators who should know better.
The short sectioned off chapters and the way this was written as a narrative keep the reader's attention. However, I personally would have preferred chapter titles and numbered footnotes that I could use to flip back to in the notes section in using this book as a reference. After reading the notes, I have 5 more books and several essays I've written down to be explored in the future as I continue to go down this rabbit whole of human immunity.
The short sectioned off chapters and the way this was written as a narrative keep the reader's attention. However, I personally would have preferred chapter titles and numbered footnotes that I could use to flip back to in the notes section in using this book as a reference. After reading the notes, I have 5 more books and several essays I've written down to be explored in the future as I continue to go down this rabbit whole of human immunity.