The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme

• Published in: Sociology of health & illness Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1344 - 1360
• Main Authors: Lindén, Lisa, Odenbring, Ylva
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2022
• Subjects: care practices; Children; Children & youth; Educational Sciences; Gender Studies; Genusstudier; HPV vaccination; Human papillomavirus; Immunization; modes of doing good; Nurses; Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified; School nurses; Science and technology; Social research; Sociologi (Exklusive socialt arbete, socialantropologi, demografi och kriminologi); Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology); tensions; Utbildningsvetenskap; Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap

In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses’ work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with...