Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine : : Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer /

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

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-existi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Gottlieb, Samantha D.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 illustrations
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Table of 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

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