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This dissertation examines the concept and ethics of vaccination for the sake of others by addressing different self-and other-directed effects of vaccination. In Chapter Two, the first substantive chapter, I set out (1) to determine how vaccination for the sake of others is best understood, and (2) to clarify different ethical issues that may be at stake when it comes to different kinds of vaccination—especially those that are primarily meant to benefit others. Chapter Two thus presents the conceptual work that grounded much of the research in this dissertation. Vaccination is a complex phenomenon, given that expected benefits for vaccinees tend to be probabilistic and based on future exposure to pathogens (rather than based on the immediate alleviation of illness), and because vaccination often affects not only vaccinees but also other people. In this chapter, I focus on disentangling some of the different self-and other …