in:
Feminist formations
Baltimore:
2010
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124 - 143 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mara, Miriam |
| In: | Feminist formations |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines how the rhetorical progression from scientific documents to media representations in the presentation of the Gardasil vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) crafts particular identity formations and attaches notions of risk to created categories of people, in particular women and girls. Specifically investigated is how the deployment of techno-scientific terms like "risk" and "sexually transmitted disease (STD)" are used to simplify the discussions about HPV to simple "for" or "against" positions about vaccinating women and girls. Such positions limit the ways actors can address Gardasil and place public health responsibility upon the bodies of women and girls. A discussion about the particular case of Gardasil and debates among medical professionals and communities provide an alternate method for building discursive structures to address public health issues—discursive structures that need not medicalize women. | |
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