There are many books to help you get educated about vaccines and avoid getting influenced by vaccine scare stories and anti-vaccine talking points.
Some can even help you understand why you are afraid of vaccines.
Unfortunately, if you simply search Amazon for books about vaccines, you are going to be hit with a list of anti-vaccine books. These are books that push their own made-up, so-called alternative immunization schedules and misinformation about vaccines to scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids.
Best Vaccine Books
Which books about vaccines have you read?
Did you even realize you had so many choices?
Some of my favorite vaccine books that can help you with your research on vaccination and making the right decision for your child include:
- Autism’s False Prophets. Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
- Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
- Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
- Bad Advice Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information
- Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
- The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
- Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
- Deadly Choices. How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
- Do Vaccines Cause That?!
- Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
- Immunity by William E. Paul, MD
- On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
- NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
- Panicology: Two Statisticians Explain What’s Worth Worrying About (and What’s Not)
- Polio. An American Story
- Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
- Pox. An American History by Michael Willrich
- Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820
- Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit
- Twin Voices: A Memoir of Polio, the Forgotten Killer
- Vaccinated. One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
- Vaccination: A History from Lady Montagu to Genetic Engineering
- Vaccine. The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver
- The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
- Vaccines and Your Child. Separating Fact from Fiction
- Your Baby’s Best Shot. Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives
How many of these books about vaccines have you read?
What To Know About Vaccine Books
If you were scared away from vaccinating your kids because of a book you read or something you saw on the Internet, consider reading a few of these vaccine books that are based on evidence, not fear.
More Information on Vaccine Books:
- The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians (“The Purple Book”)
- Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (“The Pink Book”)
- Additional Immunization Resources
- Seth Mnookin recommends the best books on Vaccines
- Vaccine as Metaphor – On Immunity is a brilliant book-length essay about very old fears.
- Vaccine Race – A well-researched tome reveals the people who helped make early vaccines possible
- On Immunity – Where Do Vaccine Fears Come From?
- Essential reading: A comprehensive takedown of Dr. Sears’ The Vaccine Book
- Vaccines 411 Recommended Books
- Must-Reads: 5 Fascinating Vaccination Books That Don’t Read Like Textbooks
- Vaccine Books
- Kevin Barry, you magnificent bastard, I read your antivaccine book!
- Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
- How the U.S. Battled Polio
- How The ‘Pox’ Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules
- “Pox” by Michael Willrich
- Tabloid Medicine
- Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives
- Kristin Cavallari: ‘I’ve Read Too Many Books’ To Vaccinate My Child