Eula Biss

Eula Biss is the author of On Immunity – An Inoculation. Her book focuses on vaccines and children’s inoculations but it is also a memoir of her experience as a young mother who wanted to find the answers about vaccines. There were many in her circle of young mothers who doubted the benefit of inoculations or felt that the ore than 20 inoculations that were recommended was overkill. There was a raging debate and loud voices who claimed that vaccines - especially the MMR vaccine - was responsible for autism.

Eula describes how she and her husband were scared to death when they brought their infant son home. They were both obsessed with his care and health. They would do anything to protect him. The questions about inoculations, of course, came up – in fact it redounded in her ears every day. She made it her mission to...