Llewellyn, H;
(2022)
Emerging Tissue Economies: Personalized Immunotherapies and Therapeutic Value in Cancer.
Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
, 41
(2)
pp. 169-182.
10.1080/01459740.2021.1902322.
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Abstract
New personalized immunotherapies hold considerable promise among cancer communities and are touted by many as the future of oncology. Described as a way to enhance the body’s “natural defense” against cancer, they are made with antigens taken from patients’ own tumor tissue. However, they also set up significant dilemmas for patients who are learning what it is like to participate in an emerging tissue economy and the stakes of exclusion from it. Taking brain tumors as my ethnographic case, I chart the valuations and exchanges that constitute this tissue economy as well as the dilemmas and disparities faced by patients.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Emerging Tissue Economies: Personalized Immunotherapies and Therapeutic Value in Cancer |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1902322 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1902322 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Biovalue, cancer, materiality, personalized immunotherapy, tissue economy, United Kingdom |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128210 |
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