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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797824003321

Autore

Navin Mark

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-76407-5

1-317-65318-1

1-317-65319-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Classificazione

PHI000000

Disciplina

615.3/72

Soggetti

Vaccines

Vaccination

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--