Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

By Elena Conis

Book Overview

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226923762
• ISBN13: 9780226923765
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Vaccine Nation has so much information about vaccination programs in the USA

The book makes it seem like women get empowered they are ultimately responsible for protecting their kids. So, in effect, the women's lib movement is where vaccines became important and how the main caretakers of children became the questioners of vaccine purity and vaccine injury.