Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body.
On Immunity is an Inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected our bodies and our fates..
She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire\'s Candide, Bram Stoker\'s Dracula, Rachel Carson\'s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag\'s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond.
Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body