English 102
April 10, 2007
Annotated Bibliography
For my annotated bibliography I have multiple sources from different sections. I got some of my sources out of the newspaper, our very own databases and one from my sister’s doctor about the vaccine gardasil. In my current annotated bibliography I have nine sources. I still have to conduct a survey for my last and final resource for the paper.
Finding information for my topic gardasil was kind of difficult. There were tons of articles on the controversy of making it a requirement for young girls to be vaccinated to get into school. But that’s not all I wanted to base my paper on because a lot of it was people voicing their opinion on the matter.
I was kind of discouraged by this but I seem to be making progress with the whole thing I chose to write about the topic because I feel very strong about the matter. I feel the vaccine should be mandatory like any other vaccine out there and that you should be able to opt out of it as a parent of a child. But my thing I also want to stress is that it should not be mandatory for young girls to get into school that is just ridiculous to me. I also want to make it a point that HPV is a sexually transmitted disease and that is not being told to young people with the commercials they have promoting this vaccine.
I feel what Governor Rick Perry of Texas did was wrong. By making a bill to get young girls by sixth grade to get vaccinated to enter school was way off. He made it an executive order so that there wouldn’t be any debate about it on the floor. It went straight to a vote. His bill proposed nine year old girls be vaccinated to enter the sixth grade and gave parents the option to opt out of it if they wanted to. Well the bill didn’t make it and I was very happy about that because it was being pushed upon them very strongly.
This is just some of the things I will be touching on in essay four. Hopefully I can inspire some change for people everywhere sense “cervical cancer kills more then 230,000 women world wide about eighty percent of them in developing countries.”(Mandavilli) I sorted my sources by relevance to the subject from least important to really important.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine What You Need To Know. Department of Health and
Human Services.
This was a sheet given to me when my younger sister got the shot of gardasil. It has information about how it is supposed to protect you. Also has information on what some of the side effects you might feel after you get your shot. It also has some facts on how it is transmitted how many people have the STD and much more useful information of where to go to find out more information.
I found this information to be very helpful because it is really straight to the point. It is very easy for anyone to read if they needed to. I felt that this was a source I could trust sense it came from the department of health.
O’Beirne, Kate. “A Mandate in Texas.” National Review 59.3(2007):18-20 Academic Search Premier. 29 March 2007 < http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24117466&site=ehost-live >
This article talks about the governor in Texas making it a requirement for sixth grade girls to vaccinated. He is facing a lot of critics for it. He wants to protect young girls against HPV. It also gives some facts about HPV.
I found this information to be very helpful, because I saw sides of the argument I might have not even considered or thought of yet. I found this article in a newspaper so it’s easy for all to read.
Napoli, Maryann. “How Vaccine Policy Is Made: The Story Of Merck and Gardasil.” Health Facts 32.3 (2007):1-3. Master File Premier. 29 March 2007 < http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=24286475&site=ehost-live
This article talks about the special interest of Governor Rick Perry and how one of his former employers works for Merck. And that this is the reason for him pushing it so hard by making it an executive order. It also talks about how Merck is pushing it so much because there is another vaccine similar to Gardasil about to come out from the competition.
The article I found to be very useful I did not know some of the reasons for such a strong push on the market for Gardasil. The article was very easy to read I found it to be very informative.
Frosch, Dan. Texas House Rejects Order by Governor on Vaccines. New York: The New York Times, 14 March 2007
This article talks about the issue making gardasil a mandatory vaccine for sixth grade girls in the state. It gives pros and cons to the situation as for the people for it and against it. It also talks about another governor in another state who is going to sign a similar bill. But the main idea of this article was that the House rejected his bill by an incredible amount of support against it.
I thought this was a good article I chose it gives you viewpoints from all sides of the story. I felt it was very helpful because it gives you information very straight forward. This is not a scholarly article but very good writing.
Mindey, Connie. Pap’s Enduring Power. Phoenix: The Arizona Republic, 27 March 2007
In this article I found that it supported the new vaccine but really was sending a message a push for women to get there routine pap test done. It said just because there is a new vaccine out there doesn’t mean you should avoid your test because of this. Urged women to go routinely for them to know the only sure way if they have cervical cancer or not.
I found this information to be very helpful because it gave women tips of when to start going when pap test should stop as well. It was real easy to read not difficult at all to understand the message they were trying to send across.
Napoli, Maryann. “Those Ubiquitous Gardasil Vaccine Ads: Selling Independence, But No Hard Facts.” Health Facts 32.3(2007):6-6. Master File Premier, 11 April 2007
This article talks about the television ad on gardasil. It criticizes it for some of the lines it uses to sell its products. It also talks about how it fails to mention that it is a sexually transmitted disease. Which I feel was the biggest component that Merck left out.
I found that this article was very helpful especially in my favor, because I felt very strongly about that commercial to. I feel it will only help me when it comes to the proposal part of my essay.
“HPV vaccines may have slow uptake.(human papilloma virus).” Pharmaceutical Technology Europe 18.9 ( September 2006): 21 (1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomas Gale. Gateway Community College (AZ). 11 April 2007
This article talks about the estimated cost that merck is supposedly going to make off the gardasil vaccine. Sense it is the first of its kind it can set the going price for the vaccine and make much more then it competitor Glaxo Smith Klein. Talks about the potential moneys it could make in 2010 and it has a chart to show the growth in the next three years.
I found this article to be very useful seeing how it provided how much money merck would make in the next three years and it was crazy. I like the fact that it gives you some background knowledge of the subject and how it price is determined by merck sense they were the first to put it out there.
Mandavilli, Apoorva. “27 Policy: FDA Approves Vaccine for Cervical Cancer.(Top 100 SCIENCE STORIES OF 2006)(Brief article).” Discover 28.1 (Jan 2007): 42(1). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomas Gale. Gateway Community College (AZ). 11 April 2007
Talks about the vaccine and how it’s a break through because it’s the second vaccine to target a sexually transmitted disease. Also talks about who the vaccine could be used for and some of the issues like the cost of the three round shot. It goes on to say that it is the most expensive vaccine out there today.
Found that this information was informative but I have a lot of the things it has already stated. Im unsure at this point if im going to use this in my proposal argument. Was really easy to read I felt it was a little short but then I guess it just stated what was really needed.
“Keeping Choice on The Gardasil Vaccine.”Christian Science Monitor 99.54(2007):8-8. Academic Search Premier. 11 April 2007
This article is very well put together by offering a solution instead of just saying through out the whole thing that it is a bad idea for girls to be vaccinated. It was very easy to read and understand what was being said through out the article. I think this might be one I may use in my final paper.
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