Making gender : big pharma, HPV vaccine policy, and women's ontological decision-making / Michelle Wyndham-West

"Making Gender endeavours to understand how the HPV vaccine became gendered within the Canadian policy landscape--when the virus is gender blind and is linked to cancer in all genders--and how women's experiences with this "gendered risk" have been folded into their vaccine decision-making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Michelle Wyndham-West explores the creation and circulation of gendered risk as it was deployed in pharmaceutical and policy discourses surrounding the rollout of the HPV vaccine. The book contextualizes the background for how gendered risk was mediated by two groups of women: mothers negotiating the vaccine for their daughters in school-based immunization programs and university students who experienced frequent HPV infections. The book explores these women's efforts to be good mothers and strong young women entering adulthood who felt vulnerable in sexual health negotiation. As a result, Making Gender reveals how vaccine decision-making took an ontological form, as an inherently social and cultural process embedded in women's experiences."--.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

[2023]

©2023

Erschienen:

Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press ; 2023

©2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wyndham-West, Michelle [VerfasserIn]

ISBN:

978-1-4875-0920-0

Themen:

Étudiantes - Risques pour la santé - Évaluation - Canada
Canada
Femmes - Risques pour la santé - Évaluation - Canada
Industrie pharmaceutique - Canada
Mères et filles - Canada
Medical policy
Mothers and daughters
Papillomavirus vaccines
Pharmaceutical industry
Politique sanitaire - Canada
Vaccination
Vaccination - Aspect social - Canada
Vaccination - Canada - Prise de décision
Vaccins antipapillomavirus - Canada
Women
Women - Health risk assessment
Women college students

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-150) and index

Umfang:

164 Seiten ; Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1884193781