Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine : Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer / Samantha D. Gottlieb, Samantha D. Gottlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottlieb, Samantha D., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervix uteri--Cancer--Prevention.

Cervix uteri.

Papillomavirus vaccines.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil-developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)-was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates-about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally. Prior to its market debut, Gardasil seemed to offer female empowerment, touting protection against HPV and its potential for cervical cancer. Gottlieb questions the marketing pitch's vaunted promise and asks why vaccine marketing unnecessarily gendered the vaccine's utility, undermining Gardasil's benefit for men and women alike. This book demonstrates why in the ten years since Gardasil's U.S. launch its low rates of public acceptance have their origins in the early days of the vaccine dissemination. Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine addresses the on-going expansion in U.S. healthcare of patients-as-consumers and the ubiquitous, and sometimes insidious, health marketing of large pharma.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Imminent Vulnerability and Commodified Empowerment

3. The Pap Smear, Racist Histories, and "Cervix" Cancer

4. Educate the Educators

5. Merck and the FDA

6. Vaccines and Politics

7. Complicity with Corporations

8. Mothers and Gardasil

9. The "Tragically Underused" Vaccine

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813587806

0813587808

9780813587790

0813587794

OCLC:

985447603