平均寿命の延長や小児疾患の減少に寄与し、年間で数百万人もの命を救っているとされる予防接種を、多くの人が、現代文明における最も偉大な科学的成果だと捉えています。しかし、約200年前にワクチンが創始されて以来、その科学的な仕組みに懐疑的な見方をする人や、強制的な予防接種は個人の自由と相容れないと考える人の間には、根強い不信感がつきまといます。こうした声は、一部のコミュニティでのワクチン接種の遅れや、忌避と関係しています。一般市民と専門家の間の隔たりはこの数十年の間にも続き、時には拡大してきたのです。
本書は感染症ならびにワクチン教育の第一人者が、ワクチンの科学、製造、文化について、科学的根拠に基づいた解説を提供するものです。ワクチンの仕組み、歴史、種類や製造方法、関連する政策、ワクチンによる健康被害、自閉性との関連性、新たな感染症の流行などについて公平な視点と情報を提供するものです。第2版にはエボラ出血熱や新型コロナウイルス感染症(COVID-19)の最新の状況が反映される予定です。ワクチンの是非に関心を持つすべての人が知っておくべきことをまとめている、信頼の置ける資料です。
Immunization is regarded by many as one of the greatest advances in modern civilization. The widespread use of vaccines has led to increases in life expectancy, reductions in the occurrence of childhood diseases, and is generally credited with saving millions of lives annually.
But since their discovery two centuries ago, vaccines have been dogged by pockets of persistent distrust among those who are skeptical of their science or who find compulsory immunization at odds with personal liberty. The rise of these voices in contemporary culture has contributed to trends of vaccine delay and vaccine hesitancy in some communities — a chasm between the general population and the scientific establishment that has persisted and grown at times across the last several decades.
VACCINES: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers a scientifically grounded overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally. Aiming to offer an unbiased resource on this hotly debated subject, it provides accessible, authoritative overviews of the following:
· How vaccines work
· The history of vaccines
· Vaccine policy — who writes it, and does it matter?
· The contents and manufacture of vaccines
· Vaccine injury
· The alleged link between vaccines and autism
· Vaccines and new outbreaks
Written by a leading authority in both infectious disease and vaccine education, this book offers a clear-eyed resource for parents or anyone with an interest in the use, efficacy, and controversy surrounding vaccines. In a subject area defined by partisanship, it offers reliable resource for what everyone needs to know.
SECTION 1: Vaccines and Immunization: Basic Principles
1. What is a vaccine?
2. A brief history of vaccines
3. How are vaccines developed?
4. Vaccine financing: who pays for all of this?
5. How is vaccine safety monitored and ensured?
SECTION 2: THE IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE
6. Immunization schedules
SECTION 3: VACCINE POLICY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
7. Laws and Standard Practices for Vaccine Administration
8. Vaccine Hesitancy
SECTION 4: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
9. Vaccine development
10. Vaccines in the Developing World
11. Disease eradication
SECTION 5: APPENDIX
Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules
Current Adult Schedule
"A wonderful introduction to one of the most important public health advances of the past 200 years. It's a must-read for prospective parents, journalists, and anyone interested in health care and health care policy. Feemster is thorough, compassionate, and engaging-a rare combination that makes this important book a delight to read." -- Seth Mnookin, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair; author of The Panic Virus
"An invaluable resource for anyone giving vaccines, getting vaccines, paying for vaccines or arguing about vaccine safety and benefit. Feemster has selected the right subjects to address and brought her expertise to bear in a literate and accessible manner. There is no clearer and more useful short introduction to the topic." -- Arthur L. Caplan, New York University School of Medicine
"...useful, fair-minded, and extremely informative..." -- Foreign Affairs
ISBN : 9780190277918
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