Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings (Basic Bioethics)

A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history science policy law and ethics.. Vaccination has long been a familiar highly effective form of medicine and a triumph of public health. Because vaccination is both an individual medical intervention and a central component of public health efforts it raises a distinct set of legal and ethical issues—from debates over their risks and benefits to the use of government vaccination requirements—and makes vaccine policymaking uniquely challenging. This volume examines the full range of ethical and policy issues related to the development and use of vaccines in the United States and around the world. Forty essays articles and reports by experts in the field look at all aspects of the vaccine life cycle. After an overview of vaccine history they consider research and development regulation and safety vaccination promotion and requirements pandemics and bioterrorism and the frontier of vaccination.  The texts cover such topics as vaccine safety controversies; the ethics of vaccine trials; vaccine injury compensation; vaccine refusal and the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases; equitable access to vaccines in emergencies; lessons from the eradication of smallpox; and possible future vaccines against cancer malaria and Ebola. The volume intentionally includes texts that take opposing viewpoints offering readers a range of arguments. The book will be an essential reference for professionals scholars and students. ContributorsJeffrey P. Baker Seth Berkley Luciana Borio Arthur L. Caplan R. Alta Charo Dave A. Chokshi James Colgrove Katherine M. Cook Louis Z. Cooper Edward Cox Douglas S. Diekema Ezekiel J. Emanuel Claudia I. Emerson Geoffrey Evans Ruth R. Faden Chris Feudtner David P. Fidler Fiona Godlee D. A. Henderson Alan R. Hinman Peter Hotez Robert M. Jacobson Aaron S. Kesselheim Heidi J. Larson Robert J. Levine Donald W. Light Adel Mahmoud Edgar K. Marcuse Howard Markel Michelle M. Mello Paul A. Offit Saad B. Omer Walter A. Orenstein Gregory A. Poland Lance E. Rodewald Daniel A. Salmon Anne Schuchat Jason L. Schwartz Peter A. Singer Michael Specter Alexandra Minna Stern Jeremy Sugarman Thomas R. Talbot Robert Temple Stephen P. Teret Alan Wertheimer Tadataka Yamada