Under no circumstances should vaccines be mandated. This goes against the entire premise of modern medicine and the concept of informed consent.

That would only apply if you were only putting your own life in danger. That doesn't apply in the case of infectious disease.

I mean, by your logic, putting a person with the Ebola virus under mandatory quarantine is a violation of medical ethics.

Can you show me a school of medical ethics that says that all quarantine zones are unethical in all cases?

"Acceptance of moral objections to certain hotly contentious issues such as abortion or physician-assisted suicide may be reasonable

Yeah, that's a false analogy, because a person seeking an abortion doesn't spontaneously cause other expecting mothers to spontaneously abort against their will.

Again, informed consent would apply to cases that only affect the patient.

And before you bring up herd immunity you need to understand that a physicians first obligation is to their patient. It is immoral to use another as a means to an end such as herd immunity. To again quote my medical ethics chapter: "no person should use another exclusively as a means to an end because each person is the end for which we should act. Each person is uniquely valuable and should not be used to further the purposes of other persons without their autonomous consent"

So are guidelines saying that doctors should wash their hands prior to surgery a violation of informed consent? What just got through handling dead bodies at the morgue, but he feels that the idea of washing his hands before operating or handling newborn babies is silly?

(This isn't a pure hypothetical, BTW. For decades, nearly the entire medical community refused to wash their hands because they found it beneath them.).

And the answer is, no, it's not an issue of informed consent. Because the doctors in this case aren't simply risking their own health to disease by refusing to wash. They're alsorisking other people.

But if you can find me a medical ethics book saying that mandatory hand washing is unethical, then feel free.