Cancer and the Politics of Care
Cancer and the Politics of Care An ethnographic examination of the effects of structural inequalities on cancer treatment around the world.Taking an ethnographic approach, the contributors to this…
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Cancer and the Politics of Care
An ethnographic examination of the effects of structural inequalities on cancer treatment around the world.Taking an ethnographic approach, the contributors to this book offer new examinations of cancer and its treatment to show how social, economic, race, gender, and other structural inequalities intersect, compound, and complicate health inequalities. 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 experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Senegal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Cancer and the Politics of Care traverses new theoretical terrain by explicitly critiquing cancer interventions, their limitations and success, the politics that drive them, and