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“Risk is one of the operative words central to sociologist Jennifer Reich’s remarkably calm book on current vaccination practices in North America. Risk is what parents, paediatricians and policymakers must evaluate in their roles as caregivers, primary-care doctors and advisers… The group of parents Reich interviewed over a 10-year period that has informed this book are the university-educated ubermoms who favour organic food and have a tendency to avoid gluten and dairy products…The doctors Reich interviewed recognise that some vaccination is better than none and that being patronising, bossy or confrontational is not in the best interest of the child or the wider community. It is a stance Reich shares.”-Times Higher Education“Jennifer Reich’s new book, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, is an essential contribution to the story of vaccines in contemporary U.S. society that should make it impossible to tell such simple stories about vaccine resisters any longer.”-American Journal of Sociology“In her engaging book, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, Jennifer Reich focuses on this last group of privileged, vocal parents, a group with the potential to disrupt the balance of infectious disease control across the country. This exceptionally timely book also confronts the challenges posed by science skepticism amid a declining sense of public obligation and the increasing dictate that health is each family’s personal responsibility.”- Contemporary Sociology“In this gripping book, Reich illumines the processes through which (mostly affluent) parents reject vaccines. The book impressively situates these anti-vaccine parents in a broader context. Reich carefully documents how a range of organizations – including medical offices, drug companies, and child protective services–are all players in this social drama. Reich’s concept of ‘individualistic parenting’ is valuable. Since parents’ decisions can have dire consequences for other children, the book is not only interesting, but it is of enormous social significance.Highly recommended!”-Annette Lareau,author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life“Calling the Shots treads confidently into the explosive terrain of vaccine refusal. In this must-read exploration of the burdens of modern mothering, Reich takes seriously the desires of mothers to make their own decisions to protect their children from risks. But she also shows how anti-vaccine stances by the privileged few may undermine the social compact and threaten the public good. This is a well-written, important, and very timely book.”-Steven Epstein,author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Recent outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough are focusing attention on this issue, making Reich's able contribution especially pertinent."-Kirkus Reviews“Calling the Shots is intellectually rigorous and politically engaged scholarship of the highest quality. Jennifer Reich illuminates the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors surrounding childhood immunization, one of the most important and contested public health policy issues of our day. Debates about vaccine refusal have too often been marked by over-simplification and unfounded assumptions, and Reich’s thorough, meticulous analysis provides a much-needed corrective.”-James Colgrove,author of State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
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About the Author
Jennifer Reich is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. Her publications include the award-winning book Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System.
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: NYU Press; 1 edition (August 7, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1479874833
ISBN-13: 978-1479874835
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Ever wonder why some parents decide not to vaccinate their children, despite broad scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and essential for public health? In clear and accessible prose, Jennifer Reich provides a sharp, yet empathetic analysis of why "anti-vaxxers" make these seemingly illogical decisions. Each chapter introduces us to a new facet of this debate: safety, risk, expertise, trust, and ideas about what makes a good parent all play an important role. Of particular interest are Reich's chapter on the history of vaccination, which sheds much-needed light on the power of the state to make decisions about citizens' bodily integrity, as well as her conclusion, which provides suggestions for improving vaccination rates.
Still haven’t made it all the way through this book because it’s really dry. It’s based on well-documented research, interviews, and historical accounts. Good for sociologists wanting to learn more.
I've been eager to have resources like this one in order to, when asked, engage wisely in conversations with young parents. This book provides information on both sides of the issues of the full course of vaccinations, a partial course of vaccinations, or no vaccinations.
it was for my daughter; she's satisfied but she says it's just OK
As deep as it is impactful, Reich's Calling The Shots is a must-read book for people on all sides of the vaccination debate. With a great deal of empathy, Reich takes a measured approach to understanding the values and strategies behind parents' decisions to not vaccinate their children, or to alter their vaccination schedules, but then also broadens the scope to give readers a grip on the wider political and medical climate that shapes those seemingly individualistic decisions. The issue of vaccines, we learn, sits at the intersection between our individual rights and the collective responsibilities to the public good; a sensitive contact point between our ideas of the self and our society.Each chapter introduces readers to people who are on all ends of the debate, giving voice to everyday folks (not just celebrities like Jenny McCarthy) to shed new light on issues of risk, safety, expertise, professions, the medical industry, and even the very concept of 'nature' in childrearing. We learn about how Paula sees vaccine schedules as not matching with what she perceives as her family's unique combination of risk factors, how Katie aims to manage her child's risks rather than vaccination, and how Margaret sees vaccines as 'unnatural' and a risk unto themselves. We hear from anti-vaccine chiropractors and from health care professionals who meet with concerned parents on a daily basis.Regardless of one's prejudices and opinions, reading this book will enlighten. Detailed and lively, Calling The Shots will surely improve the national debate on this absolutely critical issue. Bravo!
Calling the Shots is Reich's attempt at a non-judgmental, researched, impartial, and well-rounded book chronicling the why behind American parents’ voluntary vaccine refusal. Reich maintains that public health is at stake due to anti-vaccination sentiment however we shouldn’t alienate this group. Instead, we should attempt to listen patiently to their concerns while working to change their minds.Pissed off yet?The book pits those parents who often blindly follow the CDC’s recommended full childhood vaccination schedule (the author herself is included in this group) against vaccine dissenters (partially, in full, or those who opt for their own schedule). Parents who question vaccines are presented as those in higher income brackets with higher levels of education but who subscribe to individualistic type parenting, putting their child’s welfare above the good of community and public health. The slant is very much towards these parents being selfish and looking out only for their own while virtuous doctors and medical experts see with the wider lens of what's best for humanity. Reich believes that vaccine dissenters are threatening the health and welfare of the public.Her representative sample is not all-inclusive. She chose well-off predominantly white parents, mostly college educated with means to resources that their more economically counterparts would not have access to. All parents interviewed were from her home state of Colorado and confined to a small geographic area, the same area where she herself lives. Although speculation, this may point to a lazy attitude overall in including a more representative sample and may point to a lack of taking the necessary steps to finding more comprehensive research on vaccine history, safety, and efficacy.She did make herself a presence on online blogs, groups, and chats but only as an observer. She also “sought out the places where vaccines are discussed by “elites†in the name of her research. I cannot help but wonder if her time spent with Paul Offit types clouded her ability to do adequate research into the subject based on actual evidence instead of on unsubstantiated sound bites. She mentions time and again that it is the child with less access to healthcare that we should all be looking out for. This is what the entire childhood vaccination schedule is predicated on. She also is a big believer in herd immunity, a myth that not only has never been proven but was never even intended to be used in conjunction with vaccination. Also, not all vaccines are designed with the theory of herd immunity, some are meant to only protect the individual alone. The concept of herd immunity blows up when you consider that the percentage of vaccine uptake for the population ranges from 85-95% (those numbers are inexact and strangely prone to changing to meet industry needs). Consider the waning immunity of any vaccine (they aren’t effective forever and that’s even if they work at all) and taking into consideration any adult and when they received their last vaccine for whatever disease we are talking about and you will see how incredibly shortsighted the notion of herd immunity is in relation to vaccination.Reich is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver, a pro-vaccine institution that has an extensive vaccine education community outreach program. She openly admits that she was paid by her employer for writing this book. She also mentions that her husband is a pediatrician who has seen firsthand children admitted to the hospital for vaccine preventable diseases and describes his frustration over those who choose not to vaccinate. No mention is made of how many kids in his practice have been vaccine injured. She denies that there is any proven correlation between vaccines and vaccine related injury and death.Reich’s lens is colored by the patriarchal medical system and it’s relatively easy to see why when you look at her history. Reich and her husband have fully vaccinated their three children according to schedule. She believes that the information and statistics put forth by the CDC, the IOM, and the NIH are the most credible. She also states that she believes the validity of these sources over other independent studies. It is unclear whether or not she has looked at any independent studies. It appears that the buck stops with her husband who went to medical school and is lauded by many as being the premiere expert on childhood vaccination. Why would Reich bother looking elsewhere? I find this telling. Also, Reich’s husband is the father of her children and therefore would have their best interests at heart so if he believes vaccines offer their best shot at protection from disease then why would Reich ever think negatively about them? I do wonder what she would think about the latest research concerning the Mawson vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated study or vaccine ingredients such as aluminum adjuvants by Exely and Girardi? What does she think about the latest Fluad trials which compared this new flu vaccine against another untested flu vaccine? Is this method of conducting research OK with her? I also wonder how Reich feels about her book and the way she wrote it today in 2018, when much has changed since she ended her research in 2014.Yes, Reich is biased and her bias shows up throughout the entire book. I actually believe that a non-biased stance is overrated and is also impossible to achieve. I was biased when reading the book. With the exception of the most rigorous scientific method, this being the randomized double blind placebo control study, bias seeps into most other scientific inquiry. I still believe what I believe, therefore I do not believe this book or others like it will ever succeed in moving the conversation forward in a way that yields any positive result for anyone.I do believe that Reich tried to be thoughtful throughout the process of interviewing those parents who chose for various reasons not to follow the CDC schedule. She also interviewed several medical professionals and even compared several pediatric practices to show how they deal with those who do not want to vaccinate or want to delay. She tried unsuccessfully to illustrate why all parents should care enough about community health to roll up the sleeves of their child and “take one for the teamâ€. Honestly, would you sacrifice your child in the name of other children if you knew for certain that the vaccine your child would receive would cause severe injury or death? Please find me one single parent who would agree to that. It is a ridiculous notion. She alludes to the idea that parents are expected to sacrifice their own children for the good of all but if that child should become injured or killed by a vaccine, that parent is strictly on their own so why should this ever be factor in parental decision-making? She states that she understands this however the expectation is still there.The most obvious issues I have with this book is that much of Reich’s vaccine belief system has never been proven so what she says sits on a shaky-at-best foundation. Vaccine safety has not been done and individual vaccine efficacy is downright laughable in the context of belief that vaccines work. Vaccine injury is grossly underreported with VAERS capturing only between 1-10% of all vaccine injuries due to its being a voluntary, non-mandated reporting system. Injury doesn’t seem all that rare in light of this, does it? Yet, Reich states that parents are “dramatically†overstating the risk of vaccines. It seems ludicrous to expect any parent to put their child upon a sacrificial alter when those very institutions that she holds in such high regard flat out refuse to do the studies that parents like the ones she interviewed have been begging for. She makes no mention of the lies, collusion, and the outright cover-ups of the CDC like in the MMR-Thompson study. She describes the conflict of interest and revolving door policies of industry and government as something that has always been present and is just the price of doing business. I found her attitude on a number of topics to be disturbing and lacking in humanity. She seems to have no problem outing parents who practice individualistic parenting as irresponsible, selfish, and undeserving of public services like attending public school or playing in parks. If that is the case then I should be able to police any parent’s choices regarding nutrition and other lifestyle practices. Don’t you dare send your kid to school after feeding him Oreos and Doritos because his lowered immunity from poor nutrition makes him a threat to my child? Perhaps feeding your child crap food makes you an irresponsible, selfish, and bad parent who is undeserving of public resources. Have we gone too far here folks?Pediatricians are put forth in the book as experts on vaccines and parents, irrespective of the amount of reading they have done on the subject can never know enough compared to their doctors. The physicians put forth in the book view themselves, not parents, as the experts. What is the contextual definition of “expert†here? They are also cited as experts due to their clinical experience except for Dr. Bob Sears who was lambasted for having designed a customized schedule for certain children in his practice based on nothing more than wishful thinking and financial gain. Apparently, his clinical experience is unscientific and does not count. Though the current CDC schedule has never been tested for efficacy and safety, those pediatricians proposing an alternate vaccine schedule such as Dr. Sears are, according to this book, unscientific, unfounded, and downright dangerous. The reasons for Dr. Sears being singled out becomes clearly apparent after reading the book.It is my understanding that pediatricians get virtually no vaccine education in medical school other than being told that they are safe and effective, and given the ACIP/CDC recommended schedule and told to sell parents on vaccine along with how to convince the unconvinced. Dr. Dan Neides the former head of the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Center in Ohio recently reiterated this once again. I have heard this from doctor after doctor, nurse after nurse. Reich is married to a pediatrician, how does she not know this? She also stated that financial incentives for doctors to push vaccines is a myth. The book states that no doctor receives a financial incentive on a fully vaccinated child in their practice. It is my understanding that this is no myth, doctors are financially incentivized and there are a growing number of pediatricians openly admitting this. There is also no mention in the book of pediatricians kicking parents out of their practice for refusal to vaccinate or fully vaccinate. Perhaps this is because the doctors interviewed for the book were all not guilty of this but it could also be because these doctors were not forthcoming in how they run their practices. All of the pediatricians interviewed in the book were said to have only their patients’ best interest at heart. This seems disingenuous. Reich quotes one physician who said that vaccines don’t affect the body in the same way drugs do, meaning that there are no negative side effects and that we are thinking about them all wrong. It was a true WTF moment for this reviewer. I guess those toxins and proteins just slide right on out and never bio accumulate. I suppose the side effects listed on the package inserts are simply made up. BTW, Reich doesn’t mention those inserts, not even once. Parents are forced to do their own investigation into the safety and efficacy of vaccines when their doctors are woefully ignorant of true vaccine education and tend to not keep abreast of the research in their field.Stories of the unvaccinated spreading disease in doctor waiting rooms (pertussis spread by unvaccinated children in doctor’s waiting room pg. 188) are offered with no stories of the vaccinated shedding and spreading disease to the general population to counterbalance her claims. The CDC acknowledges that the unvaccinated are NOT the primary cause of recently reported pertussis outbreaks. That leaves the vaccinated on the chopping block. Reich’s stories serve, in my opinion, to spread the exact same fear that Dr. Sears is being accused of spreading by offering parents an alternate schedule and informing them of vaccine risks. There is no mention of the failed efficacy of the pertussis vaccine and how those who get it still carry and spread infection and are far more dangerous to the general population because they spread the disease while they remain asymptomatic (vaccinated grandparents who don’t know they are sick exposed to that vulnerable new born is a recipe for disaster). We can thank the vaccine for that. Nowhere is Reich’s book does this come up and I want to know why.Her rationale for the dramatically increased rate of autism is absurd and completely false. She cites better diagnosis (yes, she goes there). She should read Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmstead’s book: Denial. Reich doesn’t believe that vaccines cause the serious illnesses that parents report because, again, those institutions that she holds dear say that they don’t and that’s good enough for her. She mentions several hospitalizations due to vaccine preventable diseases such as Rotavirus and Polio but there is absolutely no proof that her examples weren’t caused by the vaccines themselves. She makes no mention of viral shedding from the live virus vaccines while pointing the finger at the unvaccinated child as a living vector of disease spreading. The one-sided and erroneous nature of her statements can make a reader nuts. She whitewashes the danger of vaccines and overstates their usefulness. You might think of her as an institution educated zombie. I can’t disagree. She did not delve into true vaccine history and she relies heavily on pro-vaccine sound bites. I will not even go into what she has to say about Dr. Andrew Wakefield because you have most likely heard it all before (yawn). Yes, she gets his history wrong too.I’ll admit this book is hard to read if you are of the opinion that choice must be left up to the individual without coercion and with full informed consent. However, in order to fully understand this broad issue and all the opinions that surround it, it is important to read books on all sides of the issues to understand what is circulating amongst the public and how opinions are formed, even if they do spread false information. No long term safety and efficacy studies has ever been done on any vaccine or in any combination given in the CDC/ACIP childhood schedule and that serious injury and death can occur from any vaccine at any age. Vaccines are essentially fast tracked without going through necessary gold standard testing which is the randomized double blind placebo control study. You cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer if injury or death occurs to your child as a result of a vaccination. You must sue the government and the burden of proof in on you. Good luck trying to tease out which vaccine caused what when so many combinations are given at once. Some believe this is by design to father shield the manufacturers from blame. If you are a newbie looking for real, unbiased vaccine information with no conflict of interest, please look elsewhere before reading this book, nvic.org is a great place to start.Reich wrote this book because she felt it important to try to bridge the gap between those who willingly choose not to vaccinate so that vaccine influencers may learn the best way to approach them with the ultimate goal of changing their minds. She states: “we can improve our thinking about vaccine choice, and ultimately public health.†This leaves one with the sense that they are being condescended to and handled. What is this “improvement†she speaks of? It sounds like the end goal is getting more parents to fully vaccinate their children without question or concern. Would she or any of the pro-vaccine people she interviewed be willing to delve into vaccine research and history in order to have their minds changed? This brings me to how upsetting her laisse faire attitude is concerning her certainty that vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary for the overall health and well-being of the population. Science does not support this position. Reich actually believes that medicine in the context of vaccination should not be customized but rather one size fits all. Does this not scream loudly of utilitarianism? Wasn’t that abolished after the Nuremberg Trials? Do we really want to go back there? This also begs the question where does it end? What else should be injected into and forced upon a population against their will and without informed consent? Barbara Loe Fisher who is quoted throughout the book and knowingly has asked the question how many children should be sacrificed for this greater good that Reich constantly references? Reich doesn’t even bother to answer the question. I find myself wondering how Reich could possibly have looked into this issue and not come up with the same information that an ever growing number of us have? The only thing I can come up with is that she did not do the proper research and by research I mean in depth and impartial reading on the subject. Therefore, it is shameful that she wrote a book on this subject in the first place and important that she get called out for spreading dangerous and false information.The scientific method begins first with observation then asking a question so how parents asking vaccine related questions of their doctors can be construed as unscientific and bothersome, I will never understand? You have a growing group of well-educated, motivated parents who have viable concerns but they are ridiculed as using internet mommy blogs, chats, other mothers, and Jenny McCarthy to fuel their vaccine education. I believe PubMed, Medscape and scientific journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and The Lancet are available online so why aren’t parents ever credited with using reputable sources? Also, some of these parents are doctors, scientists, and statisticians themselves yet if they question vaccines, they are automatically called crazy and stupid. Does this make sense to you? The reality is that many parents are far more versed in vaccine education than their doctors. Doctors don’t seem to like this very much.I was sorely disappointed at the amount of misinformation this book puts forth. The lack of proper safety testing and the varying and waning degrees of protection from any vaccine makes the decision to vaccinate our children a dubious choice at best. Through spreading outright lies, manipulation, coercion, and misinformation, medical agents and especially pediatricians have forced parents to fill in the gaps in education themselves in order to make the best decisions for their children. This is not a vote against public health or community immunity as Reich states throughout her book but a necessary part of the parenting process. In addition, Reich makes no mention of the importance of various lifestyle choices such as nutrition, clean water, and stress management in bolstering natural immunity and protection against the diseases she mentions. She also offers no talk about the advantageous aspects of childhood diseases such as measles and chicken pox and the long term health benefits that contracting these diseases at the right developmental stage can offer its recipients, something that vaccination can never hope to mimic. Reich is certainly entitled to her opinion and she has the right to write any book she wants however I hope readers will approach this book with an open mind and their common sense and critical thinking skills fully intact.BRB Rating: Read it but make sure you understand real vaccine history and have solid vaccine education under your belt before doing so. Otherwise, please look elsewhere for impartial education. I suggest starting with the NVIC and reading the book: A Guide to Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law by Barbara Loe Fisher.*Due to the nature of this review-critique, I have not included citations however I have referenced several books, studies, researchers, and institutions throughout. If you are interested in further reading on any of the points I have discussed, a simple Google search will yield the information I referenced.
An incredibly thoughtful book that unpacks the widely varied personal beliefs and opinions surrounding vaccine refusal
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