On Immunity

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A Nationwide E-book Critics Circle Award Finalist
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Why will we concern vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the creator of Notes from No Man’s Land, winner of the Nationwide E-book Critics Circle Award

Upon changing into a brand new mom, Eula Biss addresses a power situation of fear-fear of the federal government, the medical institution, and what’s in your kid’s air, meals, mattress, medication, and vaccines. She finds that you simply can’t immunize your youngster, or your self, from the world.
On this daring, fascinating e book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the person and the social physique. As she hears increasingly fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they imply for her personal youngster, her speedy group, America, and the world, each traditionally and within the current second. She extends a dialog with different moms to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and past. On Immunity is a transferring account of how we’re all interconnected-our our bodies and our fates.