Negotiating structural vulnerability in cancer control / edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armin, Julie (Julie S.), editor.

Burke, Nancy Jean, editor.

Eichelberger, Laura (Laura P.), editor.

Series:

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Patients--Care--Case studies.

Cancer.

Cancer--Social aspects--Case studies.

Medical anthropology--Case studies.

Medical anthropology.

Patient Care.

Neoplasms.

Anthropology, Medical.

Cancer--Patients--Care.

Cancer--Social aspects.

Cancer--Patients.

Medical Subjects:

Patient Care.

Neoplasms.

Anthropology, Medical.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 312 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.

Summary:

"What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to a burgeoning interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a consideration of structural vulnerability enhance applied anthropological work in cancer prevention and control? To answer these questions the contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability. These case studies illustrate how quotidian experiences of structural vulnerability influence and are altered by a cancer diagnosis at various points in the continuum of care and show that cancer is not one disease, but a set of diseases and biosocial phenomena. The contributors further utilize insights gained from the studies on cancer to extend structural vulnerability beyond its original conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: framing cancer and structural vulnerability / Nancy J. Burke, Julie Armin, and Laura Eichelberger

Cancer and precarity: rights and vulnerabilities of West African immigrants in France / Carolyn Sargent and Peter Benson

Bringing the people into policy: managing cancer among structurally vulnerable women / Julie Armin

Anxious provocations: engagements with cancer screening by the medically underserved / Susan Shaw

The familiarity of coping: kinship and social location in the safety-net experience of cancer / Simon Craddock Lee

Connecting rural patients with urban hospitals across the cancer care continuum: a view from Vietnam on a global problem / Maria Stalford

Stuck in the middle: patient navigation and cancer clinical trials recruitment in the safety net / Nancy J. Burke

Colonial legacies: population panics, reproductive control, and cancer-related fertility care in Puerto Rico / Karen Dyer

The Westernization effect: biocommunicable cartographies, epidemiologic (in)visibilities, and the cancer transition theory / Laura Eichelberger

Afterword: revealing erasures, configuring silences: structural vulnerability in cancer prevention, treatment, and research / James Quesada.

Notes:

Topics of this book discussed as part of an advanced seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), titled "Structural vulnerability in cancer control: contemporary challenges for applied anthropologists -- Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Negotiating structural vulnerability in cancer control

ISBN:

9780826360311

0826360319

OCLC:

1057632723