Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions

Author:   Keith Wailoo (Professor of History, Princeton University) ,  Julie Livingston (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey) ,  Steven Epstein (Northwestern University) ,  Robert Aronowitz (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
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9780801896712


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 November 2010
Recommended Age:   From 13
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Keith Wailoo (Professor of History, Princeton University) ,  Julie Livingston (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey) ,  Steven Epstein (Northwestern University) ,  Robert Aronowitz (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780801896712


ISBN 10:   0801896711
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 November 2010
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Acknowledgments Introduction. A Cancer Vaccine for Girls? HPV, Sexuality, and the New Politics of Prevention Vaccine Time Lines Part I: The Known and the Unknown: Vaccination Decisions amid Risk and Uncertainty Chapter 1. The Coercive Hand, the Benefi cent Hand: What the History of Compulsory Vaccination Can Tell Us about HPV Vaccine Mandates Chapter 2. Gardasil: A Vaccine against Cancer and a Drug to Reduce Risk Chapter 3. HPV Vaccination Campaigns: Masking Uncertainty, Erasing Complexity Chapter 4. The Great Undiscussable: Anal Cancer, HPV, and Gay Men's Health Chapter 5. Cervical Cancer, HIV, and the HPV Vaccine in Botswana Part II: Girls at the Center of the Storm: Marketing and Managing Gendered Risk Chapter 6. Safeguarding Girls: Morality, Risk, and Activism Chapter 7. Producing and Protecting Risky Girlhoods Chapter 8. Re- Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV Part III: Focus on the Family: Parents Assessing Morality, Risk, and Opting Out Chapter 9. Parenting and Prevention: Views of HPV Vaccines among Parents Challenging Childhood Immunizations Chapter 10. Decision Psychology and the HPV Vaccine Chapter 11. Nonmedical Exemptions to Mandatory Vaccination: Personal Belief, Public Policy, and the Ethics of Refusal Chapter 12. Sex, Science, and the Politics of Biomedicine: Gardasil in Comparative Perspective Part IV: In Search of Good Government: Eu rope, Africa, and America at the Crossroads of Cancer Prevention Chapter 13. Vaccination as Governance: HPV Skepticism in the United States and Africa, and the North- South Divide Chapter 14. Public Discourses and Policymaking: The HPV Vaccination from the Europe an Perspective Chapter 15. HPV Vaccination in Context: A View from France Notes on Contributors Index

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Well written and well researched. It is a valuable addition to the fields of public health, public policy, and pharmaceutical marketing. Choice 2011


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Keith Wailoo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History and the founding director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is the author of a number of award-winning books, including The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine and Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, both also published by Johns Hopkins. Julie Livingston is an associate professor of history at Rutgers, the author of Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana, and coeditor, along with Wailoo and Peter Guarnaccia, of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Steven Epstein is the John C. Shaffer Professor in Humanities, a professor of sociology, and a faculty affiliate in the Gender Studies Program and Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University. He has written several award-winning books, among them Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research and Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Robert Aronowitz is a professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society and Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease.

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