Books by Paul Offit
“Paul Offit is considered by many to be the leading authority on infectious disease in children in the United States, and he wrote this important and illuminating book in response to the growing problem of vaccine hesitancy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.” Read more...
John Rhodes, Scientist
The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
by Paul Offit
Here’s a book that’s written by the person who is probably the most identifiable vaccine advocate in the US. He has received death threats for his work with vaccines, and there he goes and writes the first book-length study of what, by any measure, was really the worst vaccine crisis in American history.
Interviews where books by Paul Offit were recommended
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Polio: An American Story
by David Oshinsky -
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by Arthur Allen -
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The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
by Paul Offit -
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Microbe Hunters
by Paul de Kruif -
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
by Steven Johnson
The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin
The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin
The history of vaccines is fascinating, and we highly recommend all the books discussed in this interview with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus and Professor of Science Writing at MIT. These are gripping reads that tell the story of vaccines, medicine’s greatest life-saver, and the risks people took to find them.
The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes
John Rhodes, immunologist and author of The End of Plagues and How to Make a Vaccine, selects five of the best books to help the layperson understand the human immune system in all its fiendish complexity—and explains why the discovery of a successful vaccine is only the initial breakthrough in the long and logistically challenging battle for disease eradication.
