Eula Biss is the author of Notes from No Man's Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and The Balloonists. Her essays have appeared in the Believer and Harper's Magazine. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
發表於2025-02-26
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評分這本書我感覺一般,整本書都很散,作者圍繞疫苗,免疫這方麵,從生活很多小事齣發寫的碎片式的感想。但因為整本書就是以一個母親對孩子是否需要接種疫苗的疑問作為齣發點的,所以從生活中對孩子擔憂的各個方麵來分析、看待免疫這件事也是吸引人的一個角度吧。 但單從一個希望獲...
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評分感覺是醫學題材書籍的一股清流。 一口氣讀完瞭這本書,竟是久久迴味,思之良久。雖然乍看書名讓人心生一絲抵觸,怕又是充滿學究氣息和醫學術語的學術書籍。令我感到吃驚的是,這本書不僅沒有上述所及的學術知識,反而作者的描述之精彩,文筆之優美,讓人讀之如沐春風。並且,...
評分文/吳情 準媽媽們常常會為自己的寶貝擔憂。試想一下,一個脆弱的生命,如何纔能在充滿各種細菌、病毒的世界裏健康成長呢?接受過些許醫學教育的人可能提齣建議:接種疫苗,打預防針。然而,這一看似簡單的行為,背後卻牽扯到一係列論爭,經濟政治學方麵的,社會學方麵...
圖書標籤: 疫苗 英文原版 NYtimes 2015 馬剋推薦 科普 隨筆 英文
太散瞭,沒有特彆eloquent的段落……視角是難得的,反思瞭知識的生産與傳播,但還是感覺沒有說到點子上。得讓醫學人類學的人來講,而不是一個記者
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評分"This book occupies a space between research and reflection, investigating our attitudes toward immunity and inoculation through a personal and cultural lens."
評分not worth the time, at all
評分在講作為媽媽一方麵想要信任疫苗一方麵又太愛自己孩子瞭的糾結,有趣的reference在前麵講完瞭中段開始聯係capitalism開始做作起來
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