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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 |
| 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
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| Taylor & Francis, 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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God's Agents : Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England / / Matthew Engelke
| God's Agents : Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England / / Matthew Engelke |
| Autore | Engelke Matthew |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 267/.13 |
| Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
| Soggetto topico | Evangelistic work - Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
anthropological research anthropologists bibles biblical publicity british and foreign bible society christian charities christianity contemporary england cultural anthropology evangelical christians faith and religion god modern religion modern world printing technology religious historians religious history religious publicity secular culture sociology of religion united kingdom western world word of god |
| ISBN | 0-520-95710-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Angels in Swindon -- 2. The Semiotics of Relevance -- 3. Kingdom and Christendom -- 4. Doing God -- 5. Good Trouble and Good Timing -- 6. Reasonable Religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790674503321 |
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Engelke Matthew
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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God's Agents : Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England / / Matthew Engelke
| God's Agents : Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England / / Matthew Engelke |
| Autore | Engelke Matthew |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 267/.13 |
| Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
| Soggetto topico | Evangelistic work - Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
anthropological research anthropologists bibles biblical publicity british and foreign bible society christian charities christianity contemporary england cultural anthropology evangelical christians faith and religion god modern religion modern world printing technology religious historians religious history religious publicity secular culture sociology of religion united kingdom western world word of god |
| ISBN | 0-520-95710-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Angels in Swindon -- 2. The Semiotics of Relevance -- 3. Kingdom and Christendom -- 4. Doing God -- 5. Good Trouble and Good Timing -- 6. Reasonable Religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815247503321 |
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Engelke Matthew
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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