Offit / Moser Vaccines and Your Family

Separating Fact from Fiction
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55986-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Offit, Paul

Moser, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Questions People Have About Vaccines
General Questions
Safety
Ingredients
The Immune System
Practical Considerations
Individual Vaccines
Vaccines in the First Year of Life
Vaccines in the Second Year of Life
Vaccines for Three- to Six-year-olds
Vaccines for Seven- to Eighteen-year-olds
Vaccines for Adults
The Vaccine Schedule
Appendixes
Selected Resources
About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Offit Paul:
Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an internationally recognized vaccine expert and the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine.

Charlotte A. Moser, MS, is codirector of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and creator of Parents PACK, the center’s program for the public. She has spent more than two decades designing content and resources that answer pressing vaccine questions and has published numerous scientific papers related to disease prevention, immunology, and vaccines.