04232namaa2200841uu 4500 oapen32770 oapen 20251217011902.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2015a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 912277942 OCoLC 9781138776937 (OCoLC)912277942 oapen oapen eng dc M thema MB thema MBS thema P thema PS thema PSX thema PSXM thema F. Mathews, Holly edt Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2015 1 online resource (270 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in Anthropology Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Cancer Patients Care Moral and ethical aspects. Cancer Social aspects. Medical anthropology. Cancer Aspect social. Cancéreux Soins Aspect moral. Biology, life sciences. bicssc Biology, life sciences thema Cancer Social aspects fast Human biology. bicssc Human biology thema Mathematics and science. bicssc Mathematics and Science thema Medical anthropology. bicssc Medical anthropology fast Medical anthropology thema Medical sociology. bicssc Medical sociology thema Medicine and Nursing thema Medicine: general issues. bicssc Medicine: general issues thema Medicine. bicssc POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Social Security. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Social Services & Welfare. bisacsh Neoplasms Anthropology, Medical methods Patient Care ethics Socioeconomic Factors anthropological research anthropology cancer health F. Mathews, Holly aut J. Burke, Nancy aut Kampriani, Eirini aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32770 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37849 37849