Legislating for your own good: Criminalising moral choice. The modern echoes of the Victorian vaccination acts

Liverpool Law Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-33

  Rowbotham, Judith ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Historical lessons; Moral choice; Public health; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349306168     PISSN: 0144932X     EISSN: 15728625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10991-009-9054-0     Document Type: Article

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