Synopses & Reviews
Public health officials state that vaccines are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated. Vaccination is a serious medical intervention that always carries the potential to injure and cause death as well as to prevent disease. Coercive vaccination policies deprive people of free and informed consent—the hallmark of ethical medicine. Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States.
Habakus, Holland, and Rosenberg edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including the ethics of vaccination mandates, corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program, and personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury.
Newly updated with additional chapters focusing on institutional scientific misconduct, mandates for healthcare workers, concerns about HPV vaccine development, and the story behind the Supreme Courts recent vaccine decision, Vaccine Epidemic remains the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children.
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"There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. . . . No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge." Bernadine Healy, MD, former director, NIH
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"This book raises some of the important issues that need to be discussed." Dave Weldon, MD, practicing physician and former U.S. Congressman
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"There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. . . . No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge." Bernadine Healy, MD, former director, NIH
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"This book raises some of the important issues that need to be discussed." Dave Weldon, MD, practicing physician and former U.S. Congressman
Synopsis
For the first time in paperback, the essential book on the explosive vaccine controversy.
Synopsis
Public health officials state that vaccines are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated. Coercive vaccination polices deprive people of free and informed consent, and national polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety.
Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history,
Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform. Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including:
- The human right to vaccination choice
- The ethics and constitutionality of vaccination mandates
- Personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury
- Vaccine safety science and evidence-based medicine
For the first time in paperback, and newly updated with additional chapters totaling one hundred pages of new content, Vaccine Epidemic remains the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children.
About the Author
Louise Kuo Habakus, MA, is the director and cofounder of the Center for Personal Rights, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and defending the human right to vaccination choice. In her advocacy work, she has appeared in numerous media outlets, including ABC World News Tonight, Fox & Friends, and the New York Times. She lives in Middletown, New Jersey.Mary Holland, JD, is a research scholar at NYU School of Law. She has clerked for a federal judge and worked at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and at prominent U.S. law firms. She has testified before Congress, filed amicus briefs, and appeared on Court TV, Fox, CBS, and NBC. She graduated from Harvard College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University. She is a cofounder and board member of the Center for Personal Rights, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and defending the human right to vaccination choice.