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Does libertarianism provide a justification for vaccine hesitancy?
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Butler, Jethro and Sorell, Tom (2022) Does libertarianism provide a justification for vaccine hesitancy? The Political Quarterly, 93 (2). pp. 342-346. doi:10.1111/1467-923x.13136 ISSN 1467-923X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13136
Abstract
Libertarian ideas of self‐ownership and the priority of bodily autonomy have featured prominently in the political debate over vaccination programmes and the justifiability or otherwise of restricting the liberty of the unvaccinated. In this article we look at a selection of recent right‐libertarian literature to show that there is a considerable divergence between the application of consistent libertarian principles to this issue by academic libertarians and the strident opposition to vaccination programmes and vaccine mandates expressed by people who profess to be libertarians in the public‐political debate.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics J Political Science > JC Political theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Libertarianism , Libertarian literature, Vaccination , Anti-vaccination movement , Vaccine hesitancy , Self-interest | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Political Quarterly | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1467-923X | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 93 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 342-346 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-923x.13136 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 May 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 May 2022 |
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