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Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Editat de Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, Eirini Kampriani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2017
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease. This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle- and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and underlying political forces and structural variables that frame individual experiences. Of particular concern is the need to interrogate underlying assumptions of research designs that may lead to the naturalizing of hidden agendas or intentions. Running throughout the chapters, moreover, are considerations of moral and ethical issues related to cancer treatment and research. Thematic emphases include the importance of local biologies in the framing of cancer diagnosis and treatment protocols, uncertainty and ambiguity in definitions of biosociality, shifting definitions of patienthood, and the sociality of care and support.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780815346470
ISBN-10: 0815346476
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Foreword: The Emperor of All Terrors: Forging an Alternative Biography of Cancer  Anastasia Karakasidou.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Mapping the Landscape of Transnational Cancer Ethnography  Holly F. Mathews and Nancy J. Burke  Part I: Structural Matters: Technologies of Disease, Risk, and Management  1. The Ambiguity of Blame and the Multiple Careers of Cancer Etiologies in Rural China  Anna Lora-Wainwright  2. The Psychogenesis of Cancer in France: Controlling Uncertainty by Searching for Causes  Aline Sarradon-Eck  3. Anticipating Prevention: Constituting Clinical Need, Rights and Resources in Brazilian Cancer Genetics  Sahra Gibbon  4. Managing Borders, Bodies and Cancer: Documents and the Creation of Subjects  Julie S. Armin  5. Filipina, Survivor, or Both?: Negotiating Biosociality and Ethnicity in the Context of Scarcity  Nancy J. Burke  6. Revealing Hope in Urban India: Vision and Survivorship Among Breast Cancer Charity Volunteers  Alison MacDonald  Part II: Cancer and the Sociality of Care: Intimacy, Support, and Collective Burden-Sharing  7. Love in the Time of Cancer: Kinship, Memory, Migration and Other Logics of Care in Kerala, India  Kristen Bright  8. Cancer Crisis and Treatment Ambiguity in Kenya  Benson A. Mulemi  9. From Part to Whole: Gender Roles and Health Practices in the Experience of Breast Cancer in Northeast Brazil  Waleska de Araújo Aureliano  10. “As God Is My Witness…”:  What Is Said, What Is Silenced in Informal Cancer Caregivers’ Narratives  Natalia Luxardo  11. Suffering in Local Worlds: Oncological Discourses, Cancer and Infertility in Puerto Rico  Karen E. Dyer  12. Dying to Be Heard: Cancer, Imagined Experience and the Moral Geographies of Care in the UK  Fiona M. Harris  Afterword: Cancer Enigmas and Agendas  Lenore Manderson

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Original empirical essays from across the globe demonstrate how the study of cancer promotes theoretical understandings of the politics and pragmatics of suffering, and offers insights into the meanings of survivorship, risk, charity and care in transnational contexts.