Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?

Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?

Rundo, Joan; Grignolio, Andrea

Springer

07/2018

181

Mole

Inglês

9783319681054

15 a 20 dias

3051


ebook

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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

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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
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Vaccination;Health education;anti-Vaccination movement;Infection Prevention;Measles vaccine;Immune system;Immunity;Vaccines;Infectious Diseases