Eula Biss
Eula Biss
Eula Bissis an American non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
access belief education health held intended less measures money people public quality time widely
The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.
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Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.
almost certainly environment exposure immediate immune mercury
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.
activists metaphor
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.
constitution
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.
Our community of contagion really is a world community.
doctors medical time
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
bedtime early inventive memory poetry sound typewriter wrote
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
age children diseases highly protecting vulnerable
I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.
interest pursue ways
I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.
obviously
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
age daily everyday life love
Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
citizens handle irregular ordinary
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.