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Autore: | Navin Mark |
Titolo: | Values and vaccine refusal : hard questions in ethics, epistemology, and health care / / Mark Navin |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 615.3/72 |
615.372 | |
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.: | 9910827926203321 |
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