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Cancer and the Kali Yuga

Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38652-5 (ISBN)

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As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. Cancer and the Kali Yuga reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, hold views about cancer causality, late diagnosis, and challenges to accessing treatment that differ from the public health discourse. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen's critical feminist ethnography centers and amplifies the voices of Dalit Tamil women who situate cancer within the nexus of their class, caste, and gender positions. Dalit women's narratives about their experiences with cancer present a powerful and poignant critique of the sociocultural and political-economic conditions that marginalize them and jeopardize their health and well-being in twenty-first-century India.

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is a medical anthropologist and Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India and Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Time of Writing and Transliteration

Introduction
1. History and Hospitals
2. Poverty and Chemicals
3. Women and Work
4. Screening and Morality
5. Disclosure and Care
6. Biomedicine and Bodies
7. Sorcery and Religion
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	2 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38652-3 / 0520386523
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38652-5 / 9780520386525
Zustand	Neuware