Research Catalog

Title

Three shots at prevention : the HPV vaccine and the politics of medicine's simple solutions / edited by Keith Wailoo ... [et al.].

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

Wailoo, Keith.

Description

xxix, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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. From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Papillomavirus vaccines > Social aspects
• Papillomavirus Vaccines > therapeutic use
• Uterine Cervical Neoplasms > prevention & control
• Policy Making
• Risk Factors
• Sexual Behavior > psychology
• Vaccination > ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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 --
• 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.].

ISBN

• 9780801896712 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801896711 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780801896729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080189672X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009052693

OCLC

489623187

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library