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

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"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 pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottlieb, S. D. (Samantha D.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Papillomavirus vaccines.
Cervix uteri > Cancer > Prevention.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
MEDICAL > Immunology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Vaccins antipapillomavirus.
Papillomavirus Vaccines.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Imminent Vulnerability and Commodified Empowerment; Chapter 3: The Pap Smear, Racist Histories, and â#x80;#x9C;Cervixâ#x80;#x9D; Cancer; Chapter 4: Educate the Educators; Chapter 5: Merck and the FDA; Chapter 6: Vaccines and Politics; Chapter 7: Complicity with Corporations; Chapter 8: Mothers and Gardasil; Chapter 9: The â#x80;#x9C;Tragically Underusedâ#x80;#x9D; Vaccine; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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