Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds / / edited by Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani
| 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 |
| ISBN |
9780815346470
0815346476 9781315772929 1315772922 9781317679875 1317679873 |
| 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 |
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| Taylor & Francis, 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Psycho-oncology
| 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 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Psycho-oncology
| 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 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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