Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds
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Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds
(Routledge studies in Anthropology, 23)
Routledge, 2015
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776937_oachapter3.pdf
Table of Contents
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 Araujo 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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