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

• Autore: Navin Mark
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.3/72
• Soggetto topico: Vaccines; Vaccination; Knowledge, Theory of
• Classificazione: PHI000000
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Values and vaccine refusal
• ISBN: 1-315-76407-5; 1-317-65318-1; 1-317-65319-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797824003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II