Episode 7 ¦ COVID-19 Vaccination & Parental Authority

13:10, Fri 5 May 2023

In the seventh episode in this series, Dr. T.Y. Branch at the University
of Cologne (CONCEPT) speaks with Dr. Stephen John, Hatton Lecturer in
the Philosophy of Public Health at the University of Cambridge. They
discuss vaccination policy in the UK for adolescents and children, the
challenge this can pose for parental decision-making, and how
vaccination might be seen as a moral duty. The conversation then turns
to the role of non-epistemic values in vaccine hesitancy. Economists,
philosophers and anthropologists disagree on many things, but not that
vaccine hesitancy is always misplaced. But might there be a gap between
what  scholars present as reasons for vaccine hesitancy and what the
actual reason is?

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