The Stories We Tell About Immunization

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 20, 2015

When the writer Eula Biss had her first child, she dove into the research on vaccination safety and ended up with On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf Press, 2015), a wide-ranging exploration of immunization and our obligations to our children and the community through history. Dr. Jerome Groopman, New Yorker staff writer, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You (Penguin Books, 2012), is a fan of her book, and he joins us to discuss the stories we tell ourselves about medicine and safety. 

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