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On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
5.0
"The daughter of a doctor and a poet, Eula Biss was raised with an attention to language and a matter-of-factness about illness. Her mother taught her that poetry was about dwelling in life’s uncertainties, and her father taught her to understand the benefits and limitations of medicine. When she was pregnant and starting labor, even the unknowns of delivery left her unfazed. Overnight, this changed. “By the time my son was born,” she says, “I had crossed over into a new realm in which I was no longer fearless.”
Biss’s book about the vaccination debate, On Immunity: An Inoculation, seeks less to argue the science than to examine the language and stories infusing the discussion. As a new mother, Biss relates to those who seek to protect their children by refusing vaccination. Although she decided to vaccinate her own child, she did not make the choice lightly."
Read the rest: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/mistrust-metaphor-and-medicine
Biss’s book about the vaccination debate, On Immunity: An Inoculation, seeks less to argue the science than to examine the language and stories infusing the discussion. As a new mother, Biss relates to those who seek to protect their children by refusing vaccination. Although she decided to vaccinate her own child, she did not make the choice lightly."
Read the rest: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/mistrust-metaphor-and-medicine