Assemblages of cancer : experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy / Cinzia Greco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greco, Cinzia, author.

, Wellcome Trust, Author.

Series:

Inscriptions (Manchester University Press)

Inscriptions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Treatment.

Breast.

Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--Europe.

Breast--Cancer--Great Britain.

Breast--Cancer--France.

Breast--Cancer--Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 214 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Cinzia Greco is a Mid-Career Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester.

Summary:

Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in countries with advanced, universal healthcare systems. At the same time, individual experiences are shaped by uncertainty, local variability of healthcare provisions, and the need for patients to assemble information about the treatments, knowledge on healthcare systems navigation, and different processes of meaning-making to manage the uncertainty and variability characterising individual outcomes. The book explores both how individual bodies and experiences are transformed by different local medical practices, institutions and discourses of breast cancer and how patients need to find their own way in these contexts. Assemblages of Cancer is based on ten years of ethnographic work with patients and medical professionals in the UK, France and Italy.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The political context of breast cancer in Europe

2. The cultural landscape of breast cancer

3. Biomedical innovations and the redefinition of breast cancer

4. Assembling bodies: Breast cancer and post-diagnosis metamorphoses

5. Breast cancer: an exercise in uncertainty

6. Between disruptions and recompositions: the post-diagnosis life

Conclusion: The meaning of assemblages and assemblages of meanings in breast cancer

<i>References</i>

<i>Index</i>.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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ISBN:

9781526171467

1526171465

9781526171450

1526171457

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access