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The Ethics of Vaccination

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode ;ISBN: 9783030020675 ;ISBN: 3030020673 ;ISBN: 9783030020682 ;ISBN: 3030020681 ;DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02068-2 ;OCLC: OCN: 1080647050 ;OCLC: 1080647050

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  • Title:
    The Ethics of Vaccination
  • Author: Giubilini, Alberto
  • Subjects: Book Industry Communication ; Ethics & Moral Philosophy ; Family & health ; Health & personal development ; Humanities ; Medical ; 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 ; vaccination policies
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Basingstoke: Springer Open
  • Creation Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9783030020675
    ISBN: 3030020673
    ISBN: 9783030020682
    ISBN: 3030020681
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02068-2
    OCLC: OCN: 1080647050
    OCLC: 1080647050
  • Source: OAPEN
    DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
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