Vaccination against mumps, measles, and rubella: is there a . . . The MMR vaccine issue focuses many of our concerns about ethical and responsive public health in the clinical context in a helpful way We are trying to work out what individually respectful and sensitive, publicly accountable, evidence based clinical practice might look like
Ethical Issues and Vaccines | History of Vaccines Ethical discussions are a key component of HIV vaccine research and development, because HIV vaccines pose numerous unique ethical challenges For example, AIDS stigma may put vaccine trial participants at psychological risk if they encounter discrimination
NYU Grossman Medical Vaccine Ethics - NYU Langone Health vaccine establishment, often called “anti-vaxxers,” and those who are pro-vaccination has come to a head Both sides use emotionally charged language to convince others to join their side In this module, we lay out competing concerns in an emotionally neutral context that encourages more productive public discussion and deliberation
Confirmatory Bias in Health Decisions: The MMR Vaccine and . . . In 1998, British researcher Andrew Wakefield and his co-authors published a flawed study that linked autism to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, prompting a widespread scare among parents and triggering a drastic drop in measles vaccination rates worldwide
Birthing Vaccine Skepticism - Ethics Unwrapped The article listed twelve co-authors but was actually solely written by Wakefield It proposed a potential link between the MMR vaccine and a bowel-brain “syndrome” causing both “regressive autism” (where children lost abilities such as speech that they had once had) and Crohn’s disease
Misled and confused? Telling the public about MMR vaccine . . . And if confidence falters, vaccine coverage dips, and an outbreak of measles, mumps, or rubella ensues, who, if anyone, will stand and say “I misled them, I confused them, this is my responsibility”? We examine the ethical issues of each group with a voice in the debate about vaccine safety