COVID-19 and Compulsory Vaccination: An Acceptable Form of Coercion?

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The paper considers whether the British Government could make receiving a COVID-19 vaccine effectively legally mandatory. After considering the position in English law, it considers the ethical position regarding involuntary vaccination, and concludes that while there is no legal impediment to such a requirement, it is ethically unsound.

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Hurford, J. E. (2022). COVID-19 and Compulsory Vaccination: An Acceptable Form of Coercion? New Bioethics, 28(1), 4–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2021.2010441

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