Laura Mamo is professor in the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, coauthor of Living Green: Communities that Sustain, and coeditor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.

“I found Sexualizing Cancer to be a compelling and timely read as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic endure. The implications for understanding the complex dynamics of risk, biotechnology, and prevention politics sit squarely at the heart of health and social justice projects.”

• Introduction: The Sexual Politics of Cancer and a New Regime of Cancer PreventionChapter One: Producing and Protecting Risky GirlsChapter Two: “What’s In It for the Boys?”Chapter Three: The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its NameChapter Four: A Tale of Two Trials: Settling Debate through Evidence-Based MedicineChapter Five: A “Coming Epidemic” of HPV-Associated Oral CancerChapter Six: Sex at the Oncology Office: Oral Cancer Care and the Politics of PreventionChapter Seven: Cervical Cancer’s Screening PoliticsChapter Eight: The Precision Imaginary: Optimizing Cancer Prevention ToolsChapter Nine: Commodities of Sexual Health CareAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Laura Mamo is professor in the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, coauthor of Living Green: Communities that Sustain, and coeditor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.

“I found Sexualizing Cancer to be a compelling and timely read as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic endure. The implications for understanding the complex dynamics of risk, biotechnology, and prevention politics sit squarely at the heart of health and social justice projects.”

• Introduction: The Sexual Politics of Cancer and a New Regime of Cancer PreventionChapter One: Producing and Protecting Risky GirlsChapter Two: “What’s In It for the Boys?”Chapter Three: The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its NameChapter Four: A Tale of Two Trials: Settling Debate through Evidence-Based MedicineChapter Five: A “Coming Epidemic” of HPV-Associated Oral CancerChapter Six: Sex at the Oncology Office: Oral Cancer Care and the Politics of PreventionChapter Seven: Cervical Cancer’s Screening PoliticsChapter Eight: The Precision Imaginary: Optimizing Cancer Prevention ToolsChapter Nine: Commodities of Sexual Health CareAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Laura Mamo is professor in the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, coauthor of Living Green: Communities that Sustain, and coeditor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.

“I found Sexualizing Cancer to be a compelling and timely read as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic endure. The implications for understanding the complex dynamics of risk, biotechnology, and prevention politics sit squarely at the heart of health and social justice projects.”

• Introduction: The Sexual Politics of Cancer and a New Regime of Cancer PreventionChapter One: Producing and Protecting Risky GirlsChapter Two: “What’s In It for the Boys?”Chapter Three: The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its NameChapter Four: A Tale of Two Trials: Settling Debate through Evidence-Based MedicineChapter Five: A “Coming Epidemic” of HPV-Associated Oral CancerChapter Six: Sex at the Oncology Office: Oral Cancer Care and the Politics of PreventionChapter Seven: Cervical Cancer’s Screening PoliticsChapter Eight: The Precision Imaginary: Optimizing Cancer Prevention ToolsChapter Nine: Commodities of Sexual Health CareAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex