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Flu Vaccines
Investigators at University of Cambridge have published new data on flu vaccines
July 23rd, 2008
According to recent research from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, "This article discusses some ethical principles for distributing pandemic influenza vaccine and other indivisible goods. I argue that a number of principles for distributing pandemic influenza vaccine recently adopted by several national governments are morally unacceptable because they put too much emphasis on utilitarian considerations, such as the ability of the individual to contribute to society." "Instead, it would be better to distribute vaccine by setting up a lottery. The argument for this view is based on a purely consequentialist account of morality; i.e. an action is right if and only if its...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-23)
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