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Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds / edited by Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in anthropology ; 23.
- Routledge studies in anthropology ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Social aspects.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Patients--Care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical anthropology.
- Cancer--Patients--Care.
- Cancer--Patients.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Landscape of Transnational Cancer Ethnography; 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; 2 The Psychogenesis of Cancer in France: Controlling Uncertainty by Searching for Causes; 3 Anticipating Prevention: Constituting Clinical Need, Rights and Resources in Brazilian Cancer Genetics; 4 Managing Borders, Bodies and Cancer: Documents and the Creation of Subjects
- 5 Filipina, Survivor or Both?: Negotiating Biosociality and Ethnicity in the Context of Scarcity6 Revealing Hope in Urban India: Vision and Survivorship Among Breast Cancer Charity Volunteers; 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; 8 Cancer Crisis and Treatment Ambiguity in Kenya; 9 From Part to Whole: Gender Roles and Health Practices in the Experience of Breast Cancer in Northeast Brazil
- 10 "As God Is My Witness . . .": What Is Said, What Is Silenced in Informal Cancer Caregivers' Narratives11 Suffering in Local Worlds: Oncological Discourses, Cancer and Infertility in Puerto Rico; 12 Dying to Be Heard: Cancer, Imagined Experience and the Moral Geographies of Care in the UK; Afterword: Cancer Enigmas and Agendas; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds
- ISBN:
- 9781317679882
- 1317679881
- Publisher Number:
- 99969094150
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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