Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 560 pages
- Published by: New Atlantean Press
- Edition: 1st Edition April 10, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1881217353
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1881217350
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH, Medical Director, Homefirst Health Services
"A comprehensive, scientifically-documented MUST READ for every parent, healthcare professional and policymaker who faces the dilemma of compulsory vaccination."
Russell Blaylock, MD, Neurosurgeon
"The best book ever written on this subject! The chapter on HPV is one of the most incisive, data-packed and well-argued pieces of scientific journalism I have ever seen. This book will go a long way toward helping people make critical vaccine decisions."
Reader Reviews
This book was written by Neil Miller, the author of the classic Vaccines: Are they really safe and effective? This book is more up to date, as many new vaccines have been introduced which were not covered in his earlier work. It has a chapter on every major vaccine that addresses: * What the disease is * How it is contracted * How it is treated * The history of the vaccine * Research regarding the vaccine's effectiveness * Research on the vaccine's safety He has a chapter on autism that is sixty pages long that contains charts that shows the dramatic increase in autism after the introduction of the MMR vaccine. His charts are one of my favorite aspects of his books because they make the statistics so much more powerful when you can see them illustrated visually, and he includes over ninety in this book. The autism chapter has congressional testimony given by parents of vaccine injured children that will make any parent want to do more homework on the subject prior to vaccinating. He also goes through the studies that claim there is no link between the MMR and autism. I found this particularly helpful, because I'd heard of such studies, but never knew the details. He presents a response to both studies by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. He also has a paragraph on the Homestead Health Services, which is an alternative medical facility in Chicago. The children in the practice aren't vaccinated, and of the 30,000 children they've treated, they've never seen one with autism. One of the most disturbing themes that I saw throughout the book is that children who get a vaccine are more likely to develop a more serious case of the disease than the unvaccinated. I didn't like the fact that he used vaccine and immunization interchangeably. While a vaccine may confer clinical immunity by creating antibodies, it does not necessarily give the person immunity to the disease. At 467 pages long, this is an excellent reference book, but it's not one you will blow through in a day. This is a book that I will recommend to my peers. If you are new to the subject, you may want to start with his previous book, Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective as it is shorter and probably less intimidating, then refer to this book for a discussion on the newer vaccines such as the hepatitis A vaccine. If you are interested in the vaccine debate, I also recommend Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal. It is an excellent DVD created by a mainstream ER doctor who stumbled across the vaccine debate, and became obsessed with it. I like it because there are some people who simply won't take the time to read a book on vaccines, but they will watch a DVD. Hopefully, you will do both.
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