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.

我们为什么害怕疫苗？国家书评人协会奖得主、《无人区笔记》的作者尤拉-比斯进行了一次富有启发性的探讨。

成为新妈妈后，尤拉-比斯解决了一个长期的恐惧问题--对政府、医疗机构以及你孩子的空气、食物、床垫、药品和疫苗中的东西的恐惧。她发现，你无法让你的孩子或你自己对这个世界产生免疫。

在这本大胆而迷人的书中，比斯调查了围绕我们的免疫概念的隐喻和神话，以及它对个人和社会团体的影响。当她听到越来越多关于疫苗的恐惧时，比斯研究了它们对她自己的孩子、她周围的社区、美国和世界的意义，无论是在历史上还是在当下。她将与其他母亲的对话延伸到对伏尔泰的《坎迪德》、布拉姆-斯托克的《德古拉》、蕾切尔-卡森的《寂静的春天》、苏珊-桑塔格的《艾滋病及其隐喻》以及其他作品的沉思。论免疫力》是一个关于我们如何相互联系的感人叙述--我们的身体和我们的命运。