Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds [Hardcover]

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.

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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 &l“-