Inducing Immunity?
Justifying Immunization Policies in Times of Vaccine Hesitancy
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
We live in perilous times when a significant number of citizens are either defiantly antivaccination or hesitant to accept vaccinations for themselves or for their children. In Inducing Immunity?, legal philosopher Roland Pierik and bioethicist Marcel Verweij, explore ways to regulate collective immunization in as democratic a manner as possible.
Approaching the problem as a matter of a conflict between the responsibility of government to protect public health and the basic r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547796 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262547791 |
| Author: | Roland Pierik, Marcel Verweij |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Basic Bioethics |
About The Author
Roland Pierik
Roland Pierik is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Pierik was a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and served in the Health Council’s permanent committee on vaccinations, as well as on the committee for COVID-19.
Marcel Verweij is Professor of Philosophical Ethics at Utrecht University. With Angus Dawson, he initiated the journal Public Health Ethics. He has fulfilled advisory roles for public health institutes such as the ECDC, the Health Council of the Netherlands, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and has written discussion papers for the World Health Organization on the ethics of maternal immunization and on pandemic preparedness.
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