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ArticlePublic health ethics2022

In Defense of Vaccine Mandates: An Argument from Consent Rights.

Daniel A Wilkenfeld, Christa M Johnson

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Article in Public health ethics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel A WilkenfeldDepartment of Acute and Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2600-3237
Christa M JohnsonDepartment of Philosophy, University of Dayton, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-6383

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article will focus on the ethical issues of vaccine mandates and stake claim to the relatively extreme position that outright requirements for people to receive the vaccine are ethically correct at both the governmental and institutional levels. One novel strategy employed here will be to argue that deontological considerations pertaining to consent rights cut as much in favor of mandating vaccines as against them. The presumption seems to be that arguments from consent speak semi-definitively against forcing people to inject something into their bodies, and so any argument in favor of mandates must produce different and overriding logical and ethical considerations. Our central claim will be that the same

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PMID35996430
PMCPMC9383732

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