Vaccination of individuals lacking decision-making capacity during a public health emergency

This paper explores the ethical challenges in deciding whether to vaccinate individuals lacking the decision-making capacity needed to provide informed consent during a public health emergency like COVID-19. The best interests standard ordinarily governs such decisions, which under the law in jurisd...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schaefer, GO, Johnson, T, Friets, R, Menon, S, Savulescu, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2022