Posted: 10/07/2014
- HuffPost Books
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
by Eula Biss
Graywolf Press, US$24.00
Published Sept. 30, 2014
Published Sept. 30, 2014
What we think:
Biss' attempt to uncover the way we discuss and experience vaccination takes an effective two-pronged approach: She shares her earliest, most raumatic memories of motherhood, and delves deeply into the history and semantics of disease.
The doctors who recommend vaccinations and the
parents who oppose them are often described in the media as warring or feuding
-– militaristic language that may not overstate the dearly held sympathies of
both parties. Still, such wordage may be construed as sensational. Eula Biss,
the author of On Immunity: An Inoculation, a new book that colors
historical and scientific explorations of vaccination with related personal
troubles, would disagree. Metaphors, she believes, are essential to our
understanding of the natural world. They’re especially vital to our conception
of disease and immunity
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