Putting public health infrastructures to the test: introducing HPV vaccination in Austria and the Netherlands
Dados Bibliográficos
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Senior Lecturer in Children and Youth Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, Netherlands. Her current research interests include orphanhood and the international political economy of humanitarian responses to orphans, as well as youth sexual and reproductive health issues, primarily in eastern Africa., Department of Political Science University of Vienna Austria |
| ANO | 2018 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology of Health and Illness |
| ISSN | 0141-9889 |
| E-ISSN | 1467-9566 |
| EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12595 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
This article presents two cases of policymaking concerning the vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and carcinogenic. Our analysis focuses on its introduction in Austria and the Netherlands. In both contexts, we find prevention and screening to be at once complementary and competing public health logics and we draw on the concept of 'infrastructure' to understand their roles in shaping the reception of the vaccine. We reveal how the HPV vaccine had to be made 'good enough', much like the Pap smear (Casper and Clarke ), by means of diverse tinkering practices that transformed both the technology and the infrastructures in which they emerged. At the same time, it was important that the vaccine would not come to problematise Pap smear‐based screening. The article points to the contextually contingent nature of policymaking around new medical technologies, and the skillful care with which public health infrastructures such as immunisation and screening programmes are handled and tinkered with.