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- Johnson, Ericka, 1973-, et al.
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Prescribing Relational Subjectivities
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 87-105
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The project that triggered this book was named “Prescriptive Prescriptions. Pharmaceuticals and ‘Healthy’ Subjectivities.” As discussed in Chap. 1, Introduction, our initial task was to map out and explore how pharmaceuticals were prescribing healthy subject positions for the individuals targeted by them. But pharmaceuticals do much more than prescribe healthy personhood. They also prescribe healthy social relationships whose very existence and enactment can be imagined as requiring the consumption of a prescription medication. The two chapters in this part detail how this is done discursively by focusing on commercial images and texts used to market and sell Alzheimer’s, prostate and human papillomavirus pharmaceuticals.
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- Johnson, Ericka, 1973-
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Sexing Drugs, Refracting Discourses
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 211-222
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book has discussed the way pharmaceuticals can produce sex/gender and be sexed/gendered in many different contexts. It presents empirical cases, covering pharmaceuticals on both ends of the adult subject and sex/gender in many different contexts. As such, it is an attempt to show the productive benefits of applying feminist technoscience studies’ theoretical tools about material-discursive entanglements and subjectivity to pharmaceutical studies and the political traction this can produce.
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- Johnson, Ericka, 1973-
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The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 37-58
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter discusses the use of alpha-blockers to treat lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostate hyperplasia (LUTS/BPH) as an example of how pharmaceuticals are involved in producing anatomical objects that can be associated with symptoms and diseases. It uses clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of LUTS/BPH and an analytical framework taken from feminist science studies and science and technology studies, drawing on the tradition of thinking about how the gendered body is produced in and by medical technologies. With the concepts actant and intra-action, it articulates the material-discursive constellations that enact the prostate as a target for alpha-blocker therapies by thinking through the intra-actions of patients, bodies and pharmaceuticals. I will first give a brief history of prostate treatments and then read the use of alpha-blockers as described by the guidelines as an example of a pharmaceuticalized prostate.
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- Lindén, Lisa, 1985-, et al.
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Two Shots for Children
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 189-209
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In February 2014 Austria became the first European country to offer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to both girls and boys for free. This chapter discusses how this has involved a discursive shift from the individual girl “at risk” to the population of children as the vaccination recipient. With the help of Adele Clarke’s social worlds/arenas approach, we discuss the discursive positions taken by a range of different governmental and non-governmental actors concerning the HPV vaccine. Combining an analysis of public information material with an analysis of interviews with administration and health-care staff, the chapter highlights how gender, sexual disease transmission and immunization are articulated and discussed in the chosen social worlds of the Austrian HPV vaccination arena. In relation to that, we stress how a changed management of HPV vaccine evidence has crucial consequences for how the vaccination recipient and, in a broader sense, the Austrian population are constructed. We argue that the current discourse in Austria differs fundamentally from how the HPV vaccine often is framed as an individual, yet gendered, risk responsibility. In the current dominant Austrian discourse, herd immunity is anticipated through transformed relations between the individual and the population.
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- Lindén, Lisa, 1985-
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You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right?
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 107-126
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter explores how direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising in Sweden for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil (advertised as a vaccine for young girls for the prevention of cervical cancer) addresses parents and articulates gendered parental care relationships. Vaccination practice invokes a tension between the collective good and individual choice, and encourages parents to exercise good consumer choices for their children (Rose and Blume 2003; Fairhead and Leach 2007). The trope of parents-as-consumers can present the management of health risks as an individual responsibility rather than a matter of population health (Reich 2014). Vaccination practices can be read as an example of a pharmaceuticalization of life, which transforms the relations between, in this case, parents, daughters, health professionals and pharmaceutical companies, and creates new relations of caring which require the involvement of pharmaceuticals as essential participants (even when actively resisted by potential recipients) in the relationship (cf. Williams et al. 2009, 2011).
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- Maldonado, Oscar Javier
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Evidence, Sex and State Paternalism: Intersecting Global Connections in the Introduction of HPV Vaccines in Colombia
- 2017
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In: Gendering drugs. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864 - 9783319514871 ; , s. 129-158
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines provide an opportunity to trace local connections that configure the global circulation of drugs (see Lindén (Chap. 6, this volume); Lindén and Busse (Chap. 9, this volume); Hanbury (Chap. 8, this volume); Johnson et al. 2016). The multiple and almost simultaneous reception of HPV vaccines in different countries shows the local adaptation, translation and enactment of some “global” narratives, policies and market strategies around drugs. In the case of HPV vaccines, narratives around girlhood, women’s empowerment, motherhood and parental care have had a global reach through vaccination campaigns, advertisements and public health discourses. The reactions of parents, media and government to these discourses have varied from country to country, some showing similarity, others marked differences. For instance, the involvement of politicians with the HPV vaccination has varied from explicit political debate (e.g., the United States), to political consensus (Mexico, Brazil and Colombia), to silence and no explicit involvement (e.g., the UK and Sweden).
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- Johnson, Ericka
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Introduction
- 2017
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In: Gendering Drugs. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319514864
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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