Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2013
Abstract
By endorsing the use of a vaccine that makes the experience of puffing on a cigarette deeply distasteful, Lieber and Millum have taken the first few tentative steps into a future filled with medical interventions that manipulate individual preferences. It is tempting to embrace the careful arguments of “Preventing Sin” and celebrate the possibility that the profound individual and social costs of smoking will finally be tamed. Yet there is something unsettling about the possibility that parental discretion may be on the cusp of a radical expansion, one that involves a new and unexplored approach to behavior modification.
Keywords
Medical ethics, Vaccine, vaccination, Sarah R. Leiber, Joseph Millumethics, smoking, behavior modification, parental control, medical coercion, medical manipulation of children’s choices, self-destructive decisions
Publication Title
Hastings Center Report
Repository Citation
Feldman, Eric A., "Shots for Tots?" (2013). All Faculty Scholarship. 1553.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1553
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Publication Citation
43:3 Hastings Center Report 34-35 (May/June 2013).