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The Dizziness of Freedom: Understanding and Responding to Vaccine Anxieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2022

David I. Benbow
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Abstract

The rise in vaccine hesitancy in high-income countries has led some to recommend that certain vaccinations be made compulsory in states where they are currently voluntary. In contrast, I contend that legal coercion is generally inappropriate to address the complex social and psychological phenomenon of vaccine anxieties.

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VaccinationsVaccine HesitancyAnti-Vaccination IdeologyPsycho-Social DialecticTheodor Adorno
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 49 , Issue 4: First Amendment Values in Health Care , Winter 2021 , pp. 580 - 595
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