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This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional responsibilities.
The first chapter introduces some key concepts in the vaccination debate, such as ‘herd immunity’, ‘public goods’, and ‘vaccine refusal’; and explains why failure to vaccinate raises certain ethical issues. The second chapter analyses, from a philosophical perspective, the relationship between individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to the realisation of herd immunity. The third chapter is about the principle of least restrictive alternative in public health ethics and its implications for vaccination policies. Finally, the fourth chapter presents an ethical argument for unqualified compulsory vaccination, i.e. for compulsory vaccination that does not allow for any conscientious objection.
The book would appeal both philosophers interested in public health ethics and the general public interested in the philosophical underpinning of different arguments about our moral obligations with regard to vaccination.
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Keywords
- Ethics & moral philosophy
- Family & health
- Health & personal development
- Humanities
- Medical ethics
- Medical ethics & professional conduct
- Medical profession
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- moral responsibility
- open access
- Philosophy
- Policy Making
- Popular medicine & health
- public health ethics
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy
- thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health
- vaccination policies
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02068-2web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-02068-2
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