Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine

Medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil - developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV) - was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates - about adolescent sexuality and paediatric vaccinations more generally.

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In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil – developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV) – was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates – about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally.