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

"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 terrai...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Navin, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.