Three Shots at Prevention The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions / edited by Keith Wailoo ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wailoo, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination--ethics.

Sexual Behavior--psychology.

Risk Factors.

Policy Making.

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms--prevention & control.

Papillomavirus Vaccines--therapeutic use.

Papillomavirus vaccines--Social aspects.

Papillomavirus vaccines.

Medical Subjects:

Vaccination--ethics.

Sexual Behavior--psychology.

Risk Factors.

Policy Making.

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms--prevention & control.

Papillomavirus Vaccines--therapeutic use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

And, since HPV causes cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus, why was the vaccine recommended only for females? What did this reveal about gender and sexual politics in the United States? With hundreds of thousands of HPV-related cancer deaths worldwide, how did similar national debates in Europe and the developing world shape the global possibilities of cancer prevention?This volume provides insight into the deep moral, ethical, and scientific questions that must be addressed when sexual and social politics confront public health initiatives in the United States and around the world.

Contents:

Nonmedical exemptions to mandatory vaccination : personal belief, public policy, and the ethics of refusal / Nancy Berlinger and Alison Jost

Sex, science, and the politics of biomedicine : Gardasil in comparative perspective / Steven Epstein and April N. Huff

Vaccination as governance : HPV skepticism in the U.S. and Africa and the North-South divide / Julie Livingston, Keith Wailoo, and Barbara Cooper

Public discourses and policy making : the HPV vaccination from the European perspective / Andrea Stöckl

HPV vaccination in context : a view from France / Ilana Löwy

Conclusion : individualized risk : medical perils, political pathways, and the cultural framing of vaccination under the shadow of sexuality / Keith Wailoo ... [et al.].

The coercive hand, the beneficent hand : what the history of compulsory vaccination can tell us about HPV vaccine mandates / James Colgrove

Gardasil : a vaccine against cancer and a drug to reduce risk / Robert Aronowitz

HPV vaccination campaigns : masking uncertainty, erasing complexity / Lundy Braun and Ling Phoun

The great undiscussable : anal cancer, HPV, and gay men's health / Steven Epstein

Cervical cancer, HIV, and the HPV vaccine in Botswana / Doreen Ramogola-Masire

Safeguarding girls : morality, risk, and activism / Heather Munro Prescott

Producing and protecting risky girlhoods / Laura Mamo, Amber Nelson, and Aleia Clark

Re-presenting choice : tune in HPV / Giovanna Chesler and Bree Kessler

Parenting and prevention : views of HPV vaccines among parents challenging childhood immunizations / Jennifer A. Reich

Decision psychology and the HPV vaccine / Gretchen Chapman

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8018-9959-1

OCLC:

793202951