28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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A very (_VERY_) rare objective look at this issue, July 20, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: The Immunization Decision: A Guide for Parents (The Family health series) (Paperback)
My wife and I figuratively nearly came to blows over the decision to immunize our children. It came down to the point where we _had_ to find an objective way to make a decision. So, as is our practice, we start reading books.
Only to find that every book written on this subject, on either side of the issue, is extremely inflammatory, biased, and inaccurate. I am not talking about a small sample of books -- the two of us read nearly a dozen books and several dozen articles. And our reading was doing more harm than good.
Until we found this book. This book finally gave us the objective information we were looking for, and we were able to make our decision.
The book is layed out with an introduction to general concepts, then a chapter per disease. Each chapter provides: 1) A description of the disease, with the range of effects observed from that disease, and the historical trend in the severity of outcomes from that disease. 2) A description of the efficacy ! of the vaccine (i.e. what is its effect on the number or severity of cases of the disease.) 3) A description of the range of other known effects of the vaccine, and the severity of those effects.
That is the essential material needed to make a decision about immunization, which is above all else a process of weighing one set of risks against another set of risks.
For those who wish to treat immunization as a decision, this book will help you do so.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Very useful and striaghtforward book!!, February 13, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: The Immunization Decision: A Guide for Parents (The Family health series) (Paperback)
This was book was so incredibly useful in the decision to vaccinate or not. I had read many books before which were either vehemently against or vigorously for vaccinations. I was at my wits end trying to find a source which presented the information in an unbiased format- this book does exactly that. The author has no agenda, other than wanting people to make informed decisions, and he presents the information fairly. There are no scary stories to play on your emotions, which many other books do present quite often. As a parent this book was indispenible and I wish every parent could have it in their home library!! You won't regret purchasing and reading this book!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An easy to comprehend overview., November 10, 2002
This review is from: The Immunization Decision: A Guide for Parents (The Family health series) (Paperback)
This book was a great overview of why you should/should not vaccinate your children. I read the book in one day. I am waiting on another book that is newer for more up-to-date information, but I highly reccomend this easy to understand book.
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