具体描述
Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of Notes from No Man’s Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child’s air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.
In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected—our bodies and our fates.
作者简介
Eula Biss is the author of Notes from No Man's Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and The Balloonists. Her essays have appeared in the Believer and Harper's Magazine. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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作者尤拉·比斯在芝加哥任教，她的孩子出生时，正值H1N1禽流感疫情爆发。这本书就是源于一个母亲的单纯担忧：“是否选择接种，并不是我要不要保护我的儿子的问题，而是为了保护他，是不是值得去冒接种疫苗可能带来的风险问题。让我儿子接受疫苗，会不会像忒提斯在冥河浸洗阿喀...
评分随着果壳那种不正常文风的科普小品在科普界异军突起，科学式幽默sheldon式段子越来越多，不经意流露的炫智商／炫理性思维越来越少（或越来越萌贱化），科普的受众面也就广了许多。然而，这样的科普还是把一些并不逗逼，不解风情的人们送出了观众席。如中老年，无幽默细胞者，还...
评分出差一个礼拜，没有跟爸妈通过电话。今天回到办公室，看到桌上堆着五本《免疫》的样书。这是出差前一直在编辑的、最上心的书。 突然想起小时候跟爸妈间的两件事。 第一件事发生时，我刚刚记事，印象很浅，详细的来龙去脉都是后来妈妈讲给我听的。当时我体质不佳，但那个年月，...
评分出差一个礼拜，没有跟爸妈通过电话。今天回到办公室，看到桌上堆着五本《免疫》的样书。这是出差前一直在编辑的、最上心的书。 突然想起小时候跟爸妈间的两件事。 第一件事发生时，我刚刚记事，印象很浅，详细的来龙去脉都是后来妈妈讲给我听的。当时我体质不佳，但那个年月，...
用户评价
not a well-structured book, bits of useful information here and there, entangled with emotionnal recounts of early motherhood
评分"This book occupies a space between research and reflection, investigating our attitudes toward immunity and inoculation through a personal and cultural lens."
评分"This book occupies a space between research and reflection, investigating our attitudes toward immunity and inoculation through a personal and cultural lens."
评分专业词汇有点多，说实话，没看太懂
评分结构好散乱，社科类的作品没有章节标题不可忍啊，而且每节第一句都以“我儿子”开头。有些地方似乎有些闪光点，但是没继续深入地聊下去。还是作为专栏文章发表比较好吧
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