TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective paternalism and vaccination programmes
AU - Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper
AU - Midtgaard, Søren Flinch
AU - Pedersen, Viki Møller Lyngby
AU - Boisen Andersen, Didde
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - One important objection to vaccination policies involving nudging or coercive measures such as restrictions on unvaccinated people’s access to public spaces is that they are paternalistic. This objection is weaker than is often assumed. We defend this claim by: 1) introducing a novel distinction between individual and collective paternalism; 2) showing that, across a range of circumstances, vaccination programmes involve collective, not individual, paternalism; and 3) arguing that collective paternalism is not wrong for the reasons that, arguably, individual paternalism is.
AB - One important objection to vaccination policies involving nudging or coercive measures such as restrictions on unvaccinated people’s access to public spaces is that they are paternalistic. This objection is weaker than is often assumed. We defend this claim by: 1) introducing a novel distinction between individual and collective paternalism; 2) showing that, across a range of circumstances, vaccination programmes involve collective, not individual, paternalism; and 3) arguing that collective paternalism is not wrong for the reasons that, arguably, individual paternalism is.
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1744-5019
JO - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
JF - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
ER -