RT Article
T1 Vaccine mandates, value pluralism, and policy diversity
JF Bioethics
VO 33
IS 9
SP 1042
OP 1049
A1 Navin, Mark C.
A1 Attwell, Katie
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1727471415
AB 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.
K1 immunization ethics
K1 mandatory vaccination
K1 Public Health Ethics
K1 vaccine mandates
K1 Value pluralism
DO 10.1111/bioe.12645