"Not If, but When": Sex, Risk, and Trust in Timing Gardasil Vaccine Decisions, An Exploratory Study among Healthcare Providers and Middle-Class Parents in the U.S.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This dissertation research explores how values regarding sexuality, morality, responsibility, protection, trust, and risk — expressed through parent, daughter, and healthcare provider relationships and interactions — inform parental decisions regarding the Gardasil® vaccine. In particular, the research examines the competing and conflicting meanings that parents and providers ascribe to vaccination and how actors position the vaccine within a wider set of negotiated, value–laden discourses. Because these narratives are situated within a larger structural field that shapes the landscape in which providers and parents interact, relevant historical and structural factors, including vaccine policy, cost, and compensation are discussed.
Author: Kathleen M. Brelsford
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: U.S. Public Health Service
Awards: G3411906506, G6134282292
OpenAlex ID: W15597025