Eula Biss
Eula Biss
Eula Bissis an American non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
drafted graduated manuscript time
I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
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.
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.
almost dangerous form older productive using
We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.
affects collective imagine single terms vaccine
Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.
effects number side tiny
The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.
babies fully meant receive schedule standard time
My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.
accurate convinced people sure totally word
I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know.
difference extremes middle people pursuit saw split time
What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they're hearing. And I think what's problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position.
believe cruelty
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
thinking opportunity mind
The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.