Herding Immunity: The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines [Hardcover]

A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come.
InHerding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy integrates modern conversations and reveals the profound impact vaccines have had on our society, highlighting the urgent need for societal change to ensure equitable vaccination for all.

Vaccines, vital for two centuries, govern our health, societies, and gatherings. A story at once of a few and one of all humanity, Life Before and After Vaccines portrays what life was like without the vaccines that many take for granted, highlighting the collective responsibility to preserve this crucial aspect of human safety.Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer and public health advocate based in New Jersey. Herlihy is a Shot@Life Champion and founder of New Jersey Parents For Vaccines. Herlihys books includeYour Babys Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives(Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), which was a finalist forForeword ReviewsBook of the Year,Teens and Smoking: Your Questions Answered(2020), andCorporations That Changed the World: Disney(2022).

InHerding Immunity, the public health writer, journalist, and advocate, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy tells the fascinating story of the history of vaccines in America. She reminds us how antivaccine activism is not new and even goes back to time of the founding colonies, but then takes us through a golden era when parents saw polio and other vaccines as miracle interventions. However, the last couple of decades have not always been kind to vaccines or the scientists who invented them, explaining in a straightforward way how vaccines became falsely linked to autism and other conditions, and the harassment that some of us in the scientific community have endured especiallyl“ƒ