Ethical Approaches on the Mandatory Vaccination in the Pandemic Context (Romania Case)
Ethical Approaches on the Mandatory Vaccination in the Pandemic Context (Romania Case)

Summary/Abstract: The present pandemic situation created the context for the promulgation of a new legislation for certain public health issues with the intrusion into the citizens’ private life. In addition, the medical professionals consider that returning to a normal life would be possible only after the majority of the population will be vaccinated. Although the Oviedo Convention promotes, without exception, informed consent to any medical intervention, by enacting specific legislation for mandatory vaccination, it will no longer be necessary to obtain the patient’s consent. How will vaccination campaigns be implemented and carried out in that context? Can this approach regarding the exercise of external decision-making authority in the field of individual actions find other patterns of justification? What would be the impact of the mass vaccinations by compulsion on the individual? The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ethico-philosophical aspects of mandatory vaccination in a pandemic context and to analyze the possible objections to it by referring to the history of the movement against vaccination.

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