Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions

Well written and well researched. It is a valuable addition to the fields of public health, public policy, and pharmaceutical marketing.
—Choice It deserves wide readership, particularly for graduate student seminars in public health, medical social science and history of science and medicine.
—Jeffrey Baker, Social History of Medicine An eminently readable examination of the turbulence surrounding this particular collision of science, commerce, and politics.
—Health Affairs 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.

• | Author: Julie Livingston, Steven Epstein, Robert Aronowitz, Keith Wailoo
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780801896729
• | ISBN-10: 080189672X