Values and vaccine refusal : hard questions in ethics, epistemology, and health care / Mark Navin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Navin, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccines.

Vaccination.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"In this first book-length philosophical treatment of vaccine refusal, Mark Navin argues that we can best understand current debates by placing them in a broader narrative about medical expertise and civic engagement. Values and Vaccine Refusal focuses on the shifting epistemic and moral terrain surrounding an educated public's relationship with healthcare and society--a relationship characterized by a wariness of experts and elites, a withdrawal from participation in public projects, and a do-it-yourself model of reasoning and practice. This is a must-read for students and researchers interested in public health, social epistemology, and the ethical dimensions of both"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Gender, vaccine denialism, and resistant epistemic communities

2. Bias and the 'irrationality' of vaccine denialism

3. Purity, disgust, and 'unsafe' vaccines

4. Parental prerogatives and the morality of vaccination

5. Coercive vaccination

6. Vaccine exemptions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-76407-5

1-317-65318-1

1-317-65319-X

9781315764078

OCLC:

921888807