Vaccine Hesitancy by Maya J. Goldenberg

The Publics Are Not Ignorant but Distrustful

Authors

  • Inmaculada de Melo-Martín Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medicine—Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2021.57

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2021-07-27

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de Melo-Martín, I. (2021). Vaccine Hesitancy by Maya J. Goldenberg: The Publics Are Not Ignorant but Distrustful. Philosophy of Medicine, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2021.57

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021)

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