"An argument for the moral right of democratically elected governments to impose vaccine mandates on citizens, even those who are "vaccine hesitant.""--

PREFACE
1 CONTROVERSIES AND COMPLEXITIES OF VACCINATION: AN INTRODUCTION
2 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN PROMOTING COLLECTIVE IMMUNIZATION
3 FORGOING VACCINATION: VACCINE HESITANCY, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND EPISTEMIC CONTROVERSIES
4 A PRINCIPLED ARGUMENT FOR LIBERTY-LIMITING VACCINATION POLICIES
5 BASIC AND BEST INTERESTS IN CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION
6 MANDATORY CHILDHOOD VACCINATION PROGRAMS AND LEGAL EXEMPTIONS
7 A FRAMEWORK FOR A PROPORTIONATE CHILDHOOD VACCINATION POLICY
8 BEYOND CHILDHOOD VACCINATION
9 TOWARDS TRUSTWORTHINESS IN IMMUNIZATION POLICY
10 CONCLUSION: VACCINATION POLICIES AND THEIR MILLIAN JUSTIFICATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Roland Pierik is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Pierik was a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and served in the Health Council’s permanent committee on vaccinations, as well as on the committee for COVID-19.
Marcel Verweij is Professor of Philosophical Ethics at Utrecht University. With Angus Dawson, he initiated the journal Public Health Ethics. He has fulfilled advisory roles for public health institutes such as the ECDC, the Health Council of the Netherlands, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and has written discussion papers for the World Health Organization on the ethics of maternal immunization and on pandemic preparedness.