
Three Shots at Prevention
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, religious conservatives decried the government's approval of the vaccine as implicitly sanctioning teen sex and encouraging promiscuity while advocates applauded its potential to prevent 4,000 cervical cancer deaths in the United States each year. Families worried that laws requiring vaccination reached too far into their private lives. Public health officials wrestled with concerns over whether the drug was too new to be required and whether opposition to it could endanger support for other, widely accepted vaccinations. Many people questioned the aggressive marketing campaigns of the vaccine's creator, Merck & Co. 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.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions


Persons
Content
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
System requirements
File format: ePUB
Copy protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (not Kindle).
The file format ePub works well for novels and non-fiction books – i.e., „flowing” text without complex layout. On an e-reader or smartphone, line and page breaks automatically adjust to fit the small displays.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our ebook Help page.