Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds / / edited by Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani |
Autore | J. Burke Nancy |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina |
362.19699/4
362.196994 306.461 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BurkeNancy Jean
KamprianiEirini MathewsHolly F |
Collana | Routledge Studies in Anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Cancer - Patients - Care - Moral and ethical aspects
Cancer - Social aspects Medical anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
cancer
anthropological research health anthropology |
ISBN |
0-8153-4647-6
1-315-77292-2 1-317-67987-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mapping the Landscape of Transnational Cancer Ethnography -- 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 -- 2 The Psychogenesis of Cancer in France: Controlling Uncertainty by Searching for Causes -- 3 Anticipating Prevention: Constituting Clinical Need, Rights and Resources in Brazilian Cancer Genetics -- 4 Managing Borders, Bodies and Cancer: Documents and the Creation of Subjects -- 5 Filipina, Survivor or Both?: Negotiating Biosociality and Ethnicity in the Context of Scarcity -- 6 Revealing Hope in Urban India: Vision and Survivorship Among Breast Cancer Charity Volunteers -- 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 -- 8 Cancer Crisis and Treatment Ambiguity in Kenya -- 9 From Part to Whole: Gender Roles and Health Practices in the Experience of Breast Cancer in Northeast Brazil -- 10 "As God Is My Witness . . .": What Is Said, What Is Silenced in Informal Cancer Caregivers" Narratives -- 11 Suffering in Local Worlds: Oncological Discourses, Cancer and Infertility in Puerto Rico -- 12 Dying to Be Heard: Cancer, Imagined Experience and the Moral Geographies of Care in the UK -- Afterword: Cancer Enigmas and Agendas -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765731603321 |
J. Burke Nancy | ||
Taylor & Francis, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Psycho-oncology |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : John Wiley & Sons |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 616 |
Soggetto topico |
Cancer - Psychological aspects
Cancer - Social aspects Cancer - Patients - Psychology Cancer - Patients - Care - Social aspects Cancer - Patients - Care - Moral and ethical aspects Neoplasms - psychology Cancer - Aspect psychologique Cancer - Aspect social Cancéreux - Psychologie Cancéreux - Soins - Aspect social Cancéreux - Soins - Aspect moral Oncology Psychology Psychoonkologie Zeitschrift Online-Ressource |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodical
Periodicals. |
ISSN | 1099-1611 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Psychooncology |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996198574203316 |
New York, N.Y., : John Wiley & Sons | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Psycho-oncology |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : John Wiley & Sons |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 616 |
Soggetto topico |
Cancer - Psychological aspects
Cancer - Social aspects Cancer - Patients - Psychology Cancer - Patients - Care - Social aspects Cancer - Patients - Care - Moral and ethical aspects Neoplasms - psychology Cancer - Aspect psychologique Cancer - Aspect social Cancéreux - Psychologie Cancéreux - Soins - Aspect social Cancéreux - Soins - Aspect moral Oncology Psychology Psychoonkologie Zeitschrift Online-Ressource |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodical
Periodicals. |
ISSN | 1099-1611 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Psychooncology |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910144006503321 |
New York, N.Y., : John Wiley & Sons | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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