Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780815346470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 270 str.

Opis

Original empirical essays from across the globe demonstrate how the study of cancer promotes theoretical understandings of the politics and pragmatics of suffering, and offers insights into the meanings of survivorship, risk, charity and care in transnational contexts.

Spis treści

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 Araújo 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

O autorze

Holly F. Mathews is Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University.

Nancy J. Burke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine and the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

Eirini Kampriani is adjunct lecturer at IST/University of Hertfordshire and the National School of Public Health, Greece.