State Vaccination Exemption Policy Makes A Difference
Mother Jones has just run a very nice analysis of recent years' research on state laws governing non-medical exemption from childhood vaccines. It turns out that if a state makes it very easy for...
View ArticleFact vs. Fiction: Judge Upholds Barring Unvaccinated Children from Public...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Vaccination is one of the great success stories of public health. People who receive vaccinations against disease are far less likely to contract that disease. In 1900, 30.4% of...
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V-Ticket to Ride
by Sean Philpott-Jones, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership I haven’t been to Disneyland since my senior year in high school, and I’ve actually never visited one of the Disney...
View ArticleDon’t Weasel Out of the Measles Vaccine
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. By now, you have most likely been inundated with news about the measles outbreak tied to Disneyland in California. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention,...
View ArticleComedy and medicine: Why we mock parents who don’t vaccinate their children
By Keisha Ray, Ph.D. In a recent episode of his late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel, father and comedian, included a segment in which real physicians mock parents who do not vaccinate their children in a...
View ArticleIn California, Vaccination is the Law
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This week, California governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 277. This law mandates vaccinations for all children who attend a school (public or private) in the state. The only...
View ArticleState Vaccination Exemption Policy Makes A Difference
Mother Jones has just run a very nice analysis of recent years' research on state laws governing non-medical exemption from childhood vaccines. It turns out that if a state makes it very easy for...
View ArticleInside a High School Bioethics Club
I founded a bioethics club at my high school in the beginning of my sophomore year. From a very young age, I always considered it important to do the “right thing.” However, as I grew older and was...
View ArticleThree Ethical Reasons for Vaccinating your Children
Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear – vaccinations are extremely safe. Researchers who study...
View ArticleBioethicsTV (November 19-23, 2018): #TheResident, #TheGoodDoctor, #NewAmsterdam
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 8): Fraudulent medical devices; Unfinished stories; Jump to The Good Doctor (Season 2; Episode 8): Vaccination, Stories and Marital...
View ArticleVideo Interview: Alberto Giubilini on the Ethics of Vaccination
Why do some people refuse to have their child vaccinated? Are there any good reasons not to vaccinate one’s child? Why should one have one’s child vaccinated if this doesn’t make a difference to...
View ArticleVaricella Variables: Parental Authority vs. Public (& Personal) Health
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. When I was growing up I recall parents talking about chicken pox parties where parents would arrange to expose their children to a person with an active infection. The idea was...
View ArticleIrresponsible Parents, Religious Beliefs, and Coercion. What the Rockland...
Written by Alberto Giubilini Oxford Martin School, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford Following a measles outbreak, Rockland County in New York has enforced a 30 day...
View ArticleHealth vs Choice? The Vaccination Debate.
On Sunday 3 November, OUC’s Dr Alberto Giubilini participated in a debate on compulsory vaccination at 2019 Battle of Ideas Festival (Barbican Centre, London). Chaired by Ellie Lee, the session also...
View ArticleContact-tracing apps and the future COVID-19 vaccination should be...
Written by Alberto Giubilini Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities – Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics University of Oxford Main point: Lockdown measures to contain the spread of...
View ArticleVideo Series: Covid-19 Who Should Be Vaccinated First?
After healthcare and some other essential workers, it might seem the most obvious candidates for a Covid-19 vaccine (if we have one) are the elderly and other groups that are more vulnerable to the...
View ArticlePandemic Ethics: Vaccine distribution ethics: monotheism or polytheism?
Written by Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) (Cross-posted with the Journal of Medical Ethics blog) Pfizer has reported preliminary...
View ArticleCross post: Pandemic Ethics: Should COVID-19 Vaccines Be mandatory? Two...
Written by Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and WEH, University of Oxford ) Vageesh Jaini (University College London) (Cross posted with the Conversation) To be properly...
View ArticleEthical Considerations For The Second Phase Of Vaccine Prioritisation
By Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu As the first phase of vaccine distribution continues to proceed, a heated debate has begun about the second phase of vaccine prioritisation, particularly with...
View ArticleThe UK should share the vaccine with the other countries – but only after all...
Alberto Giubilini Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics University of Oxford Cross posted with The Conversation “We are all in this together”, except that we are not. One of the most widely used...
View ArticleVaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking
By Govind Persad, JD, PhD The United States, after wasting over 15 million doses since March and with a stockpile of 150 million more in freezers, reportedly ordered 200 million more vaccines from...
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