Why would someone take medical advice from Jenny McCarthy? Eula Biss argues that our conceptions of immunity are incredibly fluid and evolving. McCarthy fits into this larger pattern.
- Biss describes how as a new parent she was torn between the two sides of the vaccination debate.
- The text is an thorough exploitation of how health and immunity have been conceptualized in modern history, and the baggage of these ideas carry with them.
- No side is safe. Biss isn't firmly on one side of the debate, but instead takes a level-headed.
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