Vaccine mandates, value pluralism, and policy diversity

Political communities across the world have recently sought to tackle rising rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal, by implementing coercive immunization programs, or by making existing immunization programs more coercive. Many academics and advocates of public health have applauded these policy de...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bioethics
VerfasserInnen: Navin, Mark C. (VerfasserIn) ; Attwell, Katie (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Bioethics
Jahr: 2019, Band: 33, Heft: 9, Seiten: 1042-1049
RelBib Classification:NCH Medizinische Ethik
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B mandatory vaccination
B immunization ethics
B Public Health Ethics
B Value pluralism
B vaccine mandates
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Zusammenfassung:Political communities across the world have recently sought to tackle rising rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal, by implementing coercive immunization programs, or by making existing immunization programs more coercive. Many academics and advocates of public health have applauded these policy developments, and they have invoked ethical reasons for implementing or strengthening vaccine mandates. Others have criticized these policies on ethical grounds, for undermining liberty, and as symptoms of broader government overreach. But such arguments often obscure or abstract away from the diverse values that are relevant to the ethical justifications of particular political communities’ vaccine-mandate policies. We argue for an expansive conception of the normative issues relevant to deciding whether and how to establish or reform vaccine mandates, and we propose a schema by which to organize our thoughts about the ways in which different kinds of vaccine-mandate policies implicate various values.
ISSN:1467-8519
Enthält:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12645