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 in Fremantle, 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 Dates Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Mandates & Exemptions Regime Chapter Three: Last Tweaks Chapter Four: Mobilizing for the Nonmedical Exemptions Bill Chapter Five: Social Meaning and Political Conflict Chapter Six: Drawing the Wrong Lessons from the History Of Mandates Chapter Seven: Powerful Doctors and Underfunded Public Health Chapter Eight: The Ethics and Public Acceptability of Mandates Chapter Nine: Policy Limitations and America's Institutions Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Confronting Dystopia Acknowledgments Bibliography Index