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100 1 _aF. Mathews, Holly
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245 1 0 _aAnthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_bRoutledge [Imprint]
_c2015
300 _a1 online resource (270 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aRoutledge Studies in Anthropology
506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aCancer 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 that frame individual experiences. Of particular concern is the need to interrogate underlying assumptions of research designs that may lead to the naturalizing of hidden agendas or intentions. Running throughout the chapters, moreover, are considerations of moral and ethical issues related to cancer treatment and research. Thematic emphases include the importance of local biologies in the framing of cancer diagnosis and treatment protocols, uncertainty and ambiguity in definitions of biosociality, shifting definitions of patienthood, and the sociality of care and support.
540 _aOpen licence
_0https://oapen.org/article/rights
546 _aeng
650 0 _aCancer
_xPatients
_xCare
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aCancer
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aMedical anthropology.
650 6 _aCancer
_xAspect social.
650 6 _aCancéreux
_xSoins
_xAspect moral.
650 7 _aBiology, life sciences.
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650 7 _aBiology, life sciences
_2thema
650 7 _aCancer
_xSocial aspects
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650 7 _aHuman biology.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aHuman biology
_2thema
650 7 _aMathematics and science.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aMathematics and Science
_2thema
650 7 _aMedical anthropology.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aMedical anthropology
_2fast
650 7 _aMedical anthropology
_2thema
650 7 _aMedical sociology.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aMedical sociology
_2thema
650 7 _aMedicine and Nursing
_2thema
650 7 _aMedicine: general issues.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aMedicine: general issues
_2thema
650 7 _aMedicine.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE
_xPublic Policy
_xSocial Security.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE
_xPublic Policy
_xSocial Services & Welfare.
_2bisacsh
650 1 2 _aNeoplasms
650 2 2 _aAnthropology, Medical
_xmethods
650 2 2 _aPatient Care
_xethics
650 2 2 _aSocioeconomic Factors
653 _aanthropological research
653 _aanthropology
653 _acancer
653 _ahealth
700 1 _aF. Mathews, Holly
_4aut
700 1 _aJ. Burke, Nancy
_4aut
700 1 _aKampriani, Eirini
_4aut
793 0 _aOAPEN Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32770
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