Are Vaccines Acceptable Risk?

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Over the years, people have wondered what the acceptable risks of vaccines are. Its something that is thought differently by everyone because theres more than one definition. This essay will go in depth to analyze the definition, and what constitutes as acceptable risk. Acceptable risk is something that is defined differently by different groups or people. In my opinion, acceptable risk is having a risky procedure done but the benefits of the procedure greatly triumphs over the risks. P.3 In societies terms, due to the media and other officials, vaccines are not an acceptable risk. “Anti-Vacc’s” known as people who are against vaccinations, think very poorly of vaccines. Some people are scared because they think some pharmaceutical companies…show more content…
Chemicals that can cause gastrointestinal and heart disease, even kill people. But so many people have been vaccinated and have not experienced these symptoms.It all comes down to what people consider acceptable risk.This also relates to a stereotype of vaccines. Since 2011, when medical finding written by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 re-surfaced, people went crazy because Andrew proved that the measles vaccine cause Autism. His findings were proven false and since then he's lost his medical licensure , but a certain percentage of the population still refuse to disband this Information as fake, The interesting part is how people still think vaccines are bad. According to a sociologists finding, parents were more inclined to vaccinate on whether or not this procedure would positively affect their children, or by hearing positive things that happened to people who vaccinated.Women saw themselves as experts on their children so they would find information online or through other resources for vaccinations and base their decisions off of that which that sort of research hint always the most reliable. As…show more content…
He found he could protect a child from cowpox if he infected them with a lymph from a blister. At the time this was a great idea but it was met with criticism from the public and politicians. Parents too were gripped with fear and anxiety with infecting their children. the criticisms regarded sanitation, religious/scientific, and political objections. It seemed like at this time nobody understood bacteria/diseases too well, so the risk of infecting someone to protect them seemed like a death sentence to the public. Since then their have been numerous anti-vac campaigns, people trying to oppose governmental law saying being forced to get vaccines violate their right to care for themselves. in 1902 following a smallpox outbreak, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts ruled for mandatory vaccination for all citizens. A man by the name of Henning Jacobson was not impressed with the law, saying it didn't allow him to care for his body the best he could and took it to a local court which it was ruled in the states favor and he later took it to the supreme court which ruled the same. That legal battle was the first battle where the supreme court spoke for the medical

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