Talk Vaccination Person to Person
April 17, 2019
Convincing vaccine-hesitant parents to immunize their children—a need magnified by recent measles outbreaks—will require addressing not just their scientific concerns but also their larger worries about risk and the role of experts in society, a philosopher recently argued in Issues. Now, a pediatrician offers a personal call, exploring how these parents may have come to their opinions and suggesting that to change their minds, medical and science professionals might do best by remembering that “the best way to be heard is just to speak calmly, human being to human being.”