Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Kennedy, Ashley Graham

Abstract

In this thesis, I first describe three strategies used around the world to encourage or enforce vaccination. I then review the vaccine standards of both the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization and present a number of common reasons used by individuals to justify vaccine refusal. I then outline a number of ethical tenets that can be used to evaluate vaccine policies and apply those principles to the policies described above. In this evaluation, I assert that ethical vaccine policies should not seek either to punish individuals for exercising their right to autonomy or to coerce them with threats. Rather, they should attempt to ensure the maintenance of public safety among vaccine compliant individuals and those who are unable to vaccinate for health-related reasons rather than elective ones.

Comments

Includes bibliography.

Extent

37 p.

Identifier

FA00003694

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