Three Shots At Prevention - The Hpv Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine''s Simple Solutions

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The most common sexually transmitted infection! HPV causes cancers of the cervix! vulva! vagina! penis! and anus. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006! it immediately grabbed attention. This book explores the national arguments and global disputes surrounding the hotly controversial HPV vaccine. ...

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• Authors: Keith Wailoo, Keith (Professor of History Wailoo, Keith Livingston Wailoo
• Assisted by: Robert Aronowitz (Editor), Robert (University of Pennsylvania) Aronowitz (Editor), Robert A. Aronowitz (Editor), Steven Epstein (Editor), Steven (Northwestern University) Epstein (Editor), Epstein Steven (Editor), Julie Livingston (Editor), Julie (Associate Professor of History Livingston (Editor), Livingston Julie (Editor), Keith Wailoo (Editor), Keith (Professor of History Wailoo (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2010
• EAN: 9780801896712
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9671-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; MEDICAL / Pharmacology, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology, Venereal Diseases, Sexually transmitted infections / Venereal diseases