The Infectious Myth - Abusing feminism to market HPV vaccines, with Genevieve Rail - 10.02.18

Genevieve Rail, a Professor at Montreal’s Concordia University, is part of a group of academics who recently published a paper that describes how HPV vaccines are marketed in Canada with fake informed consent, the purpose of the marketing being to ensure acceptance, and not to encourage a dialog. The paper was based on interviews with girls, the targets, their parents, and health care workers. Since the vaccine is presently targeted mostly at girls, feminism is used (or abused) to try to increase uptake (which is a much greater concern than safety or effectiveness). Our discussion also covers some of the scientific reasons for concern with this specific vaccine. For more about this week’s guest, see: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/sdbi/faculty.html?fpid=genevieve-rail