Many people sincerely believe that all vaccines are safe, adverse reactions are rare, and no peer-reviewed scientific studies exist showing that vaccines can cause harm. This book - Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies - provides the other side of the story that is not commonly told. It contains summaries of 400 important scientific papers to help parents and researchers enhance their understanding of vaccinations.

Shares impartial advice with parents about twelve standard vaccines, profiling each for risk factors, manufacturing processes, and current controversies.

"Your Babys Best Shot is written for the parent who does not have a background in science, research, or medicine, and who is confused and overwhelmed by the massive amount of information regarding the issue of child vaccines. New parents are worried about the decisions that they are making regarding their childrens health, and this work helps them wade through the information they receive in order to help them understand that vaccinating their child...

"For over a decade, Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them, as well as the health care providers and policy makers who see them as essential to ensuring community health. Reich reveals how parents who opt out of vaccinations see their decision: what they fear, what they hope to control, and what they believe is in their child?s...

"In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine community and their inescapable narrative around childhood vaccines and autism. The alleged link between the two was first espoused in a fraudulent scientific...

"Aunque todos los medicamentos estan sujetos a una estricta y continuada vigilancia por los organismos sanitarios de todo el mundo en busca de posibles efectos secundarios aun no detectados, las vacunas parecen escaparse de esa normativa. Puesto que son farmacos que se introducen en nuestro organismo, generalmente por via percutanea, las consecuencias de su peligrosidad deberian evaluarse seriamente. Esta valoracion se hace aun mas necesaria en el...

" 'The Vaccination Debate' takes a rational approach to discussing the science of vaccines in the context of everyday life. As Spinelli and Karinch examine the schedule of vaccines from birth through adolescence, the authors shed new light on this timely and controversial issue, writing with a tone that a pediatrician would use with curious, concerned parents. Many parents and health care professionals believe vaccines to be one of the best public...