America's New Vaccine Wars

Mark C. Navin is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Oakland University, Lecturer in the Department of Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, and Clinical Ethicist at Corewell Health. He is the author of Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology and Health Care (Routledge, 2016). He has led articles that appeared in journals including Pediatrics, Vaccine, American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics.Katie Attwell is Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, and a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and policies for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines. Katie has led community, policy, and behavioral research in vaccination uptake since 2014, the year of her ground-breaking “I Immunise” campaign, which drew on behavioral insights to address alternative lifestyle-based vaccine hesitancy inFremantle, Western Australia. She leads the interdisciplinary Western Australian project “Coronavax: Preparing Community and Government,” which engages in community and government research for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. She has led articles in Nature, Pediatrics, Milbank Quarterly, Vaccine, and Social Science and Medicine.

• Key DatesPreface Chapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: The Mandates & Exemptions RegimeChapter Three: Last TweaksChapter Four: Mobilizing for the Nonmedical Exemptions BillChapter Five: Social Meaning and Political ConflictChapter Six: Drawing the Wrong Lessons from the History Of MandatesChapter Seven: Powerful Doctors and Underfunded Public HealthChapter Eight: The Ethics and Public Acceptability of MandatesChapter Nine: Policy Limitations and America's InstitutionsChapter Ten: Conclusion: Confronting Dystopia AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

America's New Vaccine Wars is a timely and important addition to the literature on vaccination policy. Navin and Attwell provide a comprehensive overview of the events leading up to California's elimination of non-medical exemptions to school vaccination requirements and what has happened since that time, along with a nuanced discussion of the legal and ethical issues surrounding vaccination requirements and vaccine policy. The interdisciplinary approach- history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, politics- enhances our understanding of the complex issues related to vaccine policy. This book should be required reading for those interested in and involved with the ethical and policy issues surrounding vaccination.