Covid-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21702605 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Kelsall (0000-0002-6942-3015, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-119 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medicine Health Care and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-7423 • E-ISSN: 1572-8633 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11019-023-10188-2 |
| PMID | 38189907 |
| OpenAlex | W4390673131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
Contributions to COVID-19 vaccination programmes promise valuable collective goods. They can support public and individual health by creating herd immunity and taking the pressure off overwhelmed public health services; support freedom of movement by enabling governments to remove restrictive lockdown policies; and improve economic and social well-being by allowing businesses, schools, and other essential public services to re-open. The vaccinated can contribute to the production of these goods. The unvaccinated, who benefit from, but who do not contribute to these goods can be morally criticised as free-riders. In this paper defends the claim that in the case of COVID-19, the unvaccinated are unfair free-riders. I defend the claim against two objections. First, that they are not unfair free-riders because they lack the subjective attitudes and intentions of free-riders; second, that although the unvaccinated may be free-riders, their free-riding is not unfair
Business · Economics · Free rider problem · Free riding · Free will · Herd immunity · Law and economics · Medical law · Philosophy of medicine · Political science · Public good · Public health · Public relations · Vaccination · Law · Medicine · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · War, Ethics, and Justification · Virology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |