Three Shots at Prevention

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Cancer Vaccine for Girls? HPV, Sexuality, and the New Politics of PreventionVaccine Time LinesPart I: The Known and the Unknown: Vaccination Decisions amid Risk and UncertaintyChapter 1. The Coercive Hand, the Benefi cent Hand: What the History of Compulsory Vaccination Can Tell Us about HPV Vaccine MandatesChapter 2. Gardasil: A Vaccine against Cancer and a Drug to Reduce RiskChapter 3. HPV Vaccination Campaigns: Masking Uncertainty, Erasing ComplexityChapter 4. The Great Undiscussable: Anal Cancer, HPV, and Gay Men's HealthChapter 5. Cervical Cancer, HIV, and the HPV Vaccine in BotswanaPart II: Girls at the Center of the Storm: Marketing and Managing Gendered RiskChapter 6. Safeguarding Girls: Morality, Risk, and ActivismChapter 7. Producing and Protecting Risky GirlhoodsChapter 8. Re- Presenting Choice: Tune in HPVPart III: Focus on the Family: Parents Assessing Morality, Risk, and Opting OutChapter 9. Parenting and Prevention: Views of HPV Vaccines among Parents Challenging Childhood ImmunizationsChapter 10. Decision Psychology and the HPV VaccineChapter 11. Nonmedical Exemptions to Mandatory Vaccination: Personal Belief, Public Policy, and the Ethics of RefusalChapter 12. Sex, Science, and the Politics of Biomedicine: Gardasil in Comparative PerspectivePart IV: In Search of Good Government: Eu rope, Africa, and America at the Crossroads of Cancer PreventionChapter 13. Vaccination as Governance: HPV Skepticism in the United States and Africa, and the North- South DivideChapter 14. Public Discourses and Policymaking: The HPV Vaccination from the Europe an PerspectiveChapter 15. HPV Vaccination in Context: A View from FranceNotes on Contributors Index

Well written and well researched. It is a valuable addition to the fields of public health, public policy, and pharmaceutical marketing. Choice 2011