Bennett, L.R. and Manderson, L and Spagnoletti, B (Eds).
Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and interventions in global perspective.
[Book].
Embodying Inequalities.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
This timely volume responds to the epic impacts of cancer as a global phenomenon. Through the fine-grained lens of ethnography, the contributors present new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural inequalities intersect, compound and complicate health inequalities. Cancer experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Senegal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The volume engages with specific cancers from the point of primary prevention, to screening, diagnosis, treatment (or its absence), and end-of-life care. Cancer and the Politics of Care traverses new theoretical terrain through explicitly critiquing cancer interventions, their limitations and success, the politics that drive them, and their embeddedness in local cultures and value systems. It extends prior work on cancer, by incorporating the perspectives of patients and their families, ‘at risk’ groups and communities, health professionals, cancer advocates and educators, and patient navigators. The volume advances cross-cultural understandings of care, resisting simple dichotomies between caregiving and receiving, and reveals the fraught ethics of care that must be negotiated in resource-poor settings and stratified health systems. Its diversity and innovation ensures its wide utility among those working in and studying medical anthropology, social anthropology and other fields at the intersections of social science, medicine and health equity.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and interventions in global perspective |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800080737 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800080737 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080737 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2023 Text © Contributors, 2023 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2023 Cover image credit: Good Traditions. 15 x 9 x 13 cm. Ceramic. 2019. Nicolás Rodriguez. Prior publication in: Nicolás Rodríguez (2021). Fresh water project [Agua Dulce Proyecto audio visual: Prácticas artísticas contemporáneas en territorio]. In Luxardo, N. and Sassetti, F. (eds.). In situ. Cancer as social injustice [El cancer como injusticia social]. Buenos Aires: Biblos Editorial, 939–952. Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Bennett, L.R., Manderson, L. and Spagnoletti, B. (eds.). 2023. Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and interventions in global perspective. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080737 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http:// creativecommons.org/ licenses/ |
| Keywords: | cancer, politics, healthcare, anthropology, inequality |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163844 |
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