On Immunity Audiobook (Free)

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear-fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what’s in your son or daughter’s air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She discovers that you cannot immunize your son or daughter, or yourself, from your world.In this bold, amazing book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its own implications for the individual as well as the public body. As she hears more and more doubts about vaccines, Biss researches what they suggest for her very own child, her instant community, America, and the globe, both historically and in the present moment. She expands a discussion with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s Helps and its own Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity can be a moving accounts of how exactly we are all interconnected-our body and our fates.