Vaccines : are they worth a shot? /: are they worth a shot?. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Chi ha paura dei vaccini?
• Further Information: Note: Andrea Grignolio ; translated by Joan Rundo.
• Authors: Grignolio, Andrea
• Other Names: Rundo, Joan translator.
• Contents: 1. The parents of unvaccinated children 1.1. The 80s, the beginning of the crisis (or resistance) 1.2. Education about risk 1.3. Social changes: The doctor-patient relationship in jeopardy 1.4. Unexpected impact of late fecundity 2. A brief history of the anti-vaccination movements 2.1. The anti-vaccination movements between 1700 and 1800: Roots of obligation and objection 2.2. The anti-vaccination movements in 1900: Media and politics 3. Web alarms: autism, mercury and immune overload 3.1. Conspiracy on the Internet: separating fact from fiction 3.2. Economic criticism: Big Pharma and the allure of patents 3.3. Logic errors: the precautionary principle and the equal balance mistake 3.4. False or manipulated data: Autism 3.5. Prejudices and ideologies: Purported overload and weakening of the immune system <4. The antivax 'experts": five ways to recognize them 4.1. Alternative philosophies: homeopathy, anthroposophy and Waldarf -Steiner schools 4.2. The "alternative therapies": Five clues that reveal a charlatan 5. Past, present, and future of vaccines 5.1. Evolutionary history of naturally acquired immunity 5.2. Artificially acquired immunity: success and safety of vaccines 5.3. Therapeutic vaccines of the future: cancer and neurodegenerative diseases 6. Conclusions 6.1. A new alliance between scientists and citizens for a 'knowledge society' 6.2. Some tools for good communication strategies to combat anti-vaccination resistance.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Copernicus Books Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614.4/7; Popular works; Vaccination; Vaccination -- Complications; Vaccines; MEDICAL / Pharmacology; MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health; Vaccination; Vaccination -- Complications; Vaccines; Medical -- Immunology; Medical -- Preventive Medicine; Education -- General; Medical -- History; Immunology; Public health & preventive medicine; Teaching of a specific subject; History of medicine; Medicine; Medical Education; Immunology; Medical -- General; Popular medicine & health; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319681061; 3319681060
• Related ISBNs: 9783319681054; 3319681052
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2018).
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