Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children

by Louise Kuo Habakus (Editor), Mary Holland (Editor), Kim Mack Rosenberg (Editor)

Overview

Newly updated, here is a array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including the ethics of vaccination mandates, corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program, and personal narratives of those who have suffered vaccine injury.

Public health officials state that vaccines for children and adults are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated.

Vaccination is a serious medical intervention that always carries the potential to injure and cause death as well as to prevent disease. Coercive vaccination policies deprive people of free and informed consent—the hallmark of ethical medicine. Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners.

Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States.

Newly updated with additional chapters focusing on institutional scientific misconduct, mandates for healthcare workers, concerns about HPV vaccine development, and the story behind the Supreme Court’s recent vaccine decision, Vaccine Epidemic remains the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620872123
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	434,515
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Louise Kuo Habakus is the founding director of Center for Personal Rights and Health Freedom Action. She was a Bain consultant and a Managing Director for Putnam Investments. Louise holds two degrees from Stanford University. She lectures widely, podcasts occasionally, and has appeared in numerous media outlets including ABC World News Tonight, Fox & Friends, and the New York Times.  

Mary Holland, M.A., J.D., is legal advisor and advisory group chair of Health Choice.

Kim Mack Rosenberg is the president of the National Autism Association’s New York Metro Chapter and is a member of the Health Choice Executive Leadership Team.

Editorial Reviews

This book raises some of the important issues that need to be discussed.

Dave Weldon

There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. . . . No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge.

Bernadine Healy

Organized somewhat radically around a grim Ursula K. Le Guin short story about a child tortured for the good of a community, this book's three sections provide anecdotal accounts of physical disabilities following vaccination, discrimination faced by physicians who challenge the status quo, and the legal and ethical issues raised by vaccination. Holland, Habakus, and their contributors address the onset of autism in early childhood; Gulf War syndrome, now thought to be connected to the anthrax vaccinations; an adult's muscle deterioration thought to have been caused by a flu vaccination; a teenager permanently invalided after receiving a HPV vaccination; the role of the medical industry in shaping media coverage; constitutional issues about the government's right to mandate health care; and many other related issues. There are 23 contributions in all, and supporting documents and an appendix prepared by the Center for Personal Rights, a non-partisan advocacy group focused on vaccination choice with which Holland and Habakus are associated (though a disclaimer absolves the Center from the views expressed within). Though the editors come to the issue with an obvious agenda, their effort should still prove useful to anyone suspicious of present policies.
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