Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives

Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy, E. Allison Hagood, Paul A. Offit (Foreword by)
$28.00
Publication Date: January 30th, 2015
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781442215795
Pages:
224
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Description

The Parent's Guide to Vaccines helps readers understand why they should vaccinate. Using the latest science in the field, the authors make it clear exactly why vaccination is the right choice. They also emphasize the importance of herd immunity. Finally, the book explains how the anti-vaccine movement misleads the public on this important issue.

About the Author

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in many publications including Big Apple Parent Magazine and USA Today.E. Allison Hagood is a psychology professor at a community college in Colorado. Before becoming a professor, she was a clinician and researcher specializing in adults with severe mental illnesses. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, theAssociation for Psychological Science, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.Foreword author Paul A. Offit, MD, FAAP, is the chief of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has published several books including Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases and Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All.