Vaccine Mandates Are Justifiable Because We Are All in This Together

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1-2

  Lantos, John D ^a,b   Jackson, Mary Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b Children's Mercy Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

CROSS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; FREEDOM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FREEDOM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MASS VACCINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SUPREME COURT DECISIONS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84883481073     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2013.815021     Document Type: Editorial

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