num_pages: 205
description: 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.
language: English
title: On Immunity: An Inoculation
publisher: Graywolf Press