Vaccines and Your Child : : Separating Fact from Fiction / / Charlotte Moser, Paul Offit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Offit, Paul,; Moser, Charlotte,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 tables

Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks. Offit and Moser address parental fears that children may receive too many vaccines too early, that the HPV vaccine may cause chronic fatigue or other dangerous side effects, that additives and preservatives in vaccines cause autism, and that vaccines might do more harm than good. There couldn't be a better moment or more pressing need for this book, which offers honesty—instead of hype—in the quest to protect children's health.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Questions Parents Have About Vaccines -- General -- Safety -- Ingredients -- Practical Considerations -- Individual Vaccines -- Vaccines in the First Year of Life -- Vaccines in the Second Year of Life -- Vaccines for Adolescents and Teens -- The Vaccine Schedule -- Appendices -- Selected Reading -- About the Authors -- Index