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Kelsall, Joshua (2023) The rationality of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Episteme . pp. 1-20. doi:10.1017/epi.2023.47 ISSN 1742-3600. (In Press)
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2023.47
Abstract
Some vaccine-hesitant people lack epistemic trust in the COVID-19 vaccine recommendation that because vaccines have been shown to be medically safe and effective, one ought to get vaccinated. Citing what I call exception information, they claim that whatever the general safety and efficacy of vaccines, the vaccines may not be safe and effective for them. Examples include parents citing information about their children's health, pregnant women's concerns about the potential adverse effects of treatment on pregnant women, young people citing their relative invulnerability to extreme COVID-19 symptoms, or members of vulnerable racial groups citing epistemic injustice, such as a lack of representation in COVID-19 vaccine trials. This paper examines the extent to which a lack of epistemic trust in vaccine recommendations, based on such exemption information, is rational.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 vaccines, Vaccine hesitancy, COVID-19 (Disease), Communication in science | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Episteme | ||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1742-3600 | ||||||
Official Date: | 6 October 2023 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 1-20 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/epi.2023.47 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 December 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 December 2023 |
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