The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

Robert W. Sears

Oct 2011 · Sold by Little, Brown Spark

About this ebook

***COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED IN 2019***

***New Covid Chapter Added in 2023***

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.

Ratings and reviews

Sears pretends to be neutral and unbiased, but in reality overstates risks of vaccines and understates risks of diseases. He makes things seem more equivocal than they really are. Additionally since publishing this book he's become much more stridently anti-vaccine and he's had his license suspended for inappropriate medical exemptions from vaccines.

Dr. Sears provides all of the information you need to make your own decisions relating to vaccines and your child. Most importantly, he has opened up a channel of communication between doctors and parents by giving parents a voice through education. I read this book and took it, along with my notes and proposed schedule, to my pediatrician. I felt empowered having an honest discussion with her about my concerns and it was due to this read.

Sears blows it with his scientifically unfounded fear mongering and alternate schedule. See Dr. Paul Offit or *gasp* the CDC.

About the author

Robert W. Sears, MD, a practicing pediatrician, is the author of The Vaccine Book and The Autism Book, and co-author of The Baby Book and The Portable Pediatrician.