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Fighting for breath : living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village / Anna Lora-Wainwright.
Penn Museum Library RC279.C6 L67 2013
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Social aspects--China--Langzhong Shi.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Patients--Care--Moral and ethical aspects--China--Langzhong Shi.
- Neoplasms--epidemiology.
- Patient Care--ethics.
- Social Conditions.
- Family Relations--ethnology.
- Cancer--Patients--Care.
- Cancer--Patients.
- Cancer--Social aspects.
- China--epidemiology.
- China--Langzhong Shi.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neoplasms--epidemiology.
- Patient Care--ethics.
- Social Conditions.
- Family Relations--ethnology.
- China--epidemiology.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Cancer and contending forms of morality
- The evolving local moral world of Langzhong
- Water, hard work, and farm chemicals: the moral economy of cancer
- Gendered hardship, emotions, and the ambiguity of blame
- Xiguan, consumption, and shifting cancer etiologies
- Performing closeness, negotiating family relations, and the cost of cancer
- Perceived efficacy, social identities, and the rejection of cancer surgery
- Family relations and contested religious moralities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780824836825
- 0824836820
- OCLC:
- 806521254
- Publisher Number:
- 99969120845
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