PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hpv Vaccines, Cervical Cancer, Herd Immunity
19 Dec 2017
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Risk, Choice and the ‘girl
vaccine’- Mishra
-HPV vaccine is recommended for 11-13 year old girls and made available in school
-public health freamed HPV immunization as empowering young girls in the prevention of
cervical cancer
-HPV immuniztion is a key example of gendered control and surveillance of bodies and bodily
risk
-these immunizations cause individuals to question their own bodies, sexualities, and beliefs,
and those of their children; ultimately producing another site of anxiety
-there was a widespread lack of awareness of the virus and related disease before the
marketing of the vaccine began, which underlies the role of evidence in defining a risk object
-motivational speakers were giving lectures about HPV in schools because direct-to-consumer
advertising was prohibited in Canada
-vaccine anxiety (fear of needles) spread quickly across groups of teenage girls, so the nurses
took extra care to soothe the girls
-to reduce this anxiety the nurses keep the girls and give them food during recovery to
manage the contact with the girls who are still waiting to get their shot
-reward in the form of food encourages girls to share information in a positive way with peers
-while the nurses formally request parental consent for immunization, adolescents could
decide on their own healthcare and receive the immunization
-the gaze and discourse of cervical cancer remains firmly trained on women and away from
men
-when increased access to knowledge may enhance anxiety, or threaten acceptable norms, it
may be kept silent from the public
Health Practioners, trust and
immunisation work- Brownlie
-mumps, measles and rubella immunisation (MMR)
-recommended by the world health organization immunisation rates of 95% to ensure herd
immunity
-governmentality is about the formal and informal processes through which the human body is
managed and populations governed
-as professional practionners become more central to rendering society governable, the more
issues of trust come to the fore; first about targets, and then about MMR knowledge
-lay population critically engages the types of knowledge to which the process of
governmentality is based
-general practionners as well as the lay population points to issues of trust in each others
roles, knowledge of MMR, and the state, because they question the infomration they are
given and the way in which the information is shared
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