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Values and Vaccine Refusal - Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care (Hardcover)
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Values and Vaccine Refusal - Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care (Hardcover)
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Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to
vaccinate their children, even though popular anti-vaccine myths -
e.g. 'vaccines cause autism' - have been debunked. This book
explains the epistemic and moral failures that lead some parents to
refuse to vaccinate their children. First, some parents have good
reasons not to defer to the expertise of physicians, and to rely
instead upon their own judgments about how to care for their
children. Unfortunately, epistemic self-reliance systematically
distorts beliefs in areas of inquiry in which expertise is required
(like vaccine immunology). Second, vaccine refusers and mainstream
medical authorities are often committed to different values
surrounding health and safety. For example, while vaccine advocates
stress that vaccines have low rates of serious complications,
vaccine refusers often resist vaccination because it is 'unnatural'
and because they view vaccine-preventable diseases as a 'natural'
part of childhood. Finally, parents who refuse vaccines rightly
resist the utilitarian moral arguments - 'for the greater good' -
that vaccine advocates sometimes make. Unfortunately, vaccine
refusers also sometimes embrace a pernicious hyper-individualism
that sanctions free-riding on herd immunity and that cultivates
indifference to the interpersonal and social harms that
unvaccinated persons may cause.
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