Global Intimacies
Innovating the HPV Vaccine for Women's Health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4792189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura M Carpenter (0000-0002-2803-4654), Monica J Casper (0000-0001-9725-8566) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 80-100 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.0.0161 |
| OpenAlex | W2047320366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 20 |
According to the Pan American Health Organization's Silvana Luciani, "New technologies for cervical cancer prevention are revolutionizing public health."Yet the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) is contested, in part because it evokes politics of contagion that foreground intimate transmissibility (Casper and Carpenter 2008).As a preventive technology, the vaccine promises to reduce rates of cervical cancer by controlling the spread of the causal agent, infectious HPV.It is already reshaping sexual politics and health care relations in the United States and is poised to similarly alter public health practices globally.This essay examines the HPV vaccine's impact on transnational women's health, specifically its role in the emergence and consolidation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on women's sexuality and reproduction, its impact on cervical cancer screening, and expectations it arouses regarding pandemic HIV.A tangible object that makes and remakes people, things, and places (Helmreich 2003), the HPV vaccine joins a long list of technologies that have reconfigured health care practices and intervened in women's health.The birth control pill, for example, fundamentally altered bodies, sexual relations, gender politics, and cultural meanings of reproduction (Watkins 1998).A twenty-first-century technology, the HPV vaccine is being introduced into a clinical, cultural, and geopolitical landscape profoundly shaped by modernist yet shifting notions of sex, gender, embodiment, contagion, health, progress, and empire.Specifically, the vaccine builds on and challenges unequal relations among women across geopolitical zones and between nationstates.The technology mediates this fractured-and fractious-landscape in important ways and facilitates new biopolitical practices and forms of social organization.In tracking transnational migrations of the vaccine, we draw upon Foucault's notion of biopolitics and on feminist science and technology studies
Cancer · Cervical cancer · Environmental health · Geopolitics · Health care · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Population · Public health · Reproductive health · Sociology · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Sex work and related issues
Introduction
Communicating Care
The new sexual politics of cancer
Introduction
Worse than HIV’
Anticipation
Unsettling care
Right tool," wrong "job
From the shadows to light. Perceptions of women and healthcare providers of post-abortion care in Burkina Faso
Not from home
The pharmaceuticalization of sexual risk
A Tale of Two Technologies
Medical Sociology and Technology
How We Became Posthuman
Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project
Inventing our Selves
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Under Western Eyes
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Making the Pap Smear into the `Right Tool' for the Job
Conceiving the New World Order
Inventing Ourselves
Missing Bodies
National Mother, Global Whore, and Transnational Femocrats
Spatializing Technoscience
Cervical cancer
Under Western Eyes
Primate Visions
From Simple Technology to Complex Arena
Sex, drugs, and politics
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |