The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

Robert W. Sears

Little, Brown, Oct 26, 2011 - Family & Relationships - 352 pages

THE VACCINE BOOK offers parents a fair, impartial, fact-based resource from the most trusted name in pediatrics. Dr. Bob devotes each chapter in the book to a disease/vaccine pair and offers a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible side effects from the vaccine. This completely revised edition offers

· updated information on each vaccine and disease

· more detail on vaccines' side effects

· expanded discussions of combination vaccines

· a new section on adult vaccines

· additional options for alternative vaccine schedules

· a guide to Canadian vaccinations

THE VACCINE BOOK provides exactly the information parents want and need as they make their way through the vaccination maze.

What people are saying

Review: The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

User Review  - Barrie - Goodreads

Really liked this book. Probably worth 4.5 stars. Only reason for the deductive is that it's not new, so I wasn't sure if anything has changed in the last 2 years. Not really Dr. Sears fault. Also, I ...

Review: The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

User Review  - Allenh - Goodreads

Had to read through this one really quickly given some limited time to make choices for our little one. I liked how it was divided up into the major vaccines, gave statistics on currently known risks ...

About the author

Robert W. Sears, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician in private practice in southern California. Dr. Bob received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed his pediatric training at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He has co-authored six books in the Sears Parenting Library, including The Portable Pediatrician and The Baby Book. He is also the author of The Autism Book and co-author of Happy Baby. He lives with his family in Dana Point, CA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child; Sears parenting library
• Author: Robert W. Sears
• Edition: 2, revised
• Publisher: Little, Brown, 2011
• ISBN: 0316180521, 9780316180528
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Family & Relationships / Reference