The Ethics of Vaccination

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally respo

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THE ETHICS OF VACCINATION Alberto Giubilini

Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy Series Editor Thom Brooks Durham Law School Durham University Durham, UK

Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy offers an interdisciplinary platform for the highest quality scholarly research exploring the relation between ethics and public policy across a wide range of issues including abortion, climate change, drugs, euthanasia, health care, immigration and terrorism. It will provide an arena to help map the future of both theoretical and practical thinking across a wide range of interdisciplinary areas in Ethics and Public Policy. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14631

Alberto Giubilini

The Ethics of Vaccination

Alberto Giubilini Oxford Martin School and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities University of Oxford Oxford, UK

Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy ISBN 978-3-030-02067-5    ISBN 978-3-030-02068-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02068-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960922 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This book is an open access publication Open Access  This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Melisa Hasan This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

This book is dedicated to my “partner in crime” (well, that’s how she calls me, but being partners involves