Why immunization must be made mandatory in times of vaccine hesitancy, and how we can design and implement immunization policies in a practical, trustworthy, and democratic way. We live in perilous times when a significant number of citizens are either defiantly antivaccination or hesitant to accept vaccinations for themselves or for their children. In
Inducing Immunity?, legal philosopher Roland Pierik and bioethicist Marcel Verweij, explore ways to regulate collective immunization in as democratic a manner as possible. Approaching the problem as a matter of a conflict between the responsibility of government to protect public health and the basic right to freedom of citizens, Pierik and Verweij argue that John Stuart Mill's harm principle--the idea that individuals should be free to act so long as their actions do not harm others--offers a strong basis for coercive immunization policies.
Covering childhood immunization policies, as well as vaccination programs aimed at adult citizens, the authors argue that a coercive immunization policy in any liberal democracy must first satisfy the principle of proportionality. This leads them to an in-depth exploration of the role of exemptions, the nature of coercion, and the contents of vaccination programs. In the final part of the book, the authors also discuss the importance and scope of freedom of speech, given how the current spread of misinformation has undermined confidence in vaccines.
Offering an in-depth analysis in bioethics and legal philosophy,
Inducing Immunity? is a sensible and applicable guide for health professionals, policymakers, and academics alike on how we can--and must--do better with our immunization policies.
為什麼在疫苗猶豫的時期必須強制接種疫苗，以及我們如何以實際、值得信賴和民主的方式設計和實施免疫政策。
我們生活在危險的時期，許多公民要麼堅決反對疫苗接種，要麼對自己或子女接種疫苗持猶豫態度。在誘導免疫？中，法律哲學家Roland Pierik和生物倫理學家Marcel Verweij探討了如何以盡可能民主的方式來規範集體免疫。Pierik和Verweij將這個問題視為政府保護公共健康的責任與公民基本自由權之間的衝突，並主張約翰·斯圖亞特·密爾的傷害原則——即個體應該自由行動，只要其行為不傷害他人——為強制免疫政策提供了堅實的基礎。
涵蓋兒童免疫政策以及針對成年公民的疫苗接種計劃，作者主張任何自由民主國家的強制免疫政策必須首先滿足比例原則。這使他們深入探討了豁免的角色、強制的性質以及疫苗接種計劃的內容。在書的最後部分，作者還討論了言論自由的重要性和範疇，因為當前錯誤資訊的擴散已經削弱了人們對疫苗的信心。
提供生物倫理學和法律哲學的深入分析，誘導免疫？是一本對健康專業人士、政策制定者和學者而言，關於我們如何——以及必須——改善免疫政策的合理且可行的指南。
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.
羅蘭·皮里克（Roland Pierik）是荷蘭馬斯特里赫特大學法學院的法律哲學教授。皮里克曾是荷蘭健康委員會的成員，並在健康委員會的疫苗接種常設委員會及COVID-19委員會中任職。
馬塞爾·維爾維（Marcel Verweij）是烏特勒支大學的哲學倫理學教授。他與安格斯·道森（Angus Dawson）共同創辦了期刊《公共健康倫理》（Public Health Ethics）。他曾擔任公共衛生機構的顧問角色，如歐洲疾病預防控制中心（ECDC）、荷蘭健康委員會以及國家公共衛生與環境研究所，並為世界衛生組織撰寫有關母體免疫和疫情準備的討論文件。
