Ethics of vaccine refusal
| Autor: | Michael Kowalik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Moral Obligations
Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject education Defeasible estate 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Vaccination Refusal Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Obligation media_common Law and economics Vaccines Health Policy Vaccination 06 humanities and the arts Dissent and Disputes Issues ethics and legal aspects Moral obligation Normative Mandate 060301 applied ethics Psychology Autonomy Medical ethics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Ethics. 48:240-243 |
| ISSN: | 1473-4257 0306-6800 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/medethics-2020-107026 |
| Popis: | Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of public health. I evaluate several previously undertheorised premises implicit to the ‘obligation to vaccinate’ type of arguments and show that the general conclusion is false: there is neither a moral obligation to vaccinate nor a sound ethical basis to mandate vaccination under any circumstances, even for hypothetical vaccines that are medically risk-free. Agent autonomy with respect to self-constitution has absolute normative priority over reduction or elimination of the associated risks to life. In practical terms, mandatory vaccination amounts to discrimination against healthy, innate biological characteristics, which goes against the established ethical norms and is also defeasible a priori. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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