Cancer Entangled
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2685-4 (ISBN)
Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".
RIKKE SAND ANDERSEN is an anthropologist and professor with special responsibilities in the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University and the Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark. She has written extensively on cancer diagnostics, the production of cancer symptoms and care seeking practices. MARIE LOUISE TØRRING is an associate professor and research program director of anthropology at Aarhus University. For the past decade, she has conducted epidemiological and anthropological research on contemporary cancer transitions, in particular how cancer was reframed as an "acute disease".
Introduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations
Rikke Sand Andersen
Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times
Marie Louise Tørring
Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death
in the Middle Class
Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen
Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion
Rikke Sand Andersen
Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness
Camilla Hoffmann Merrild
Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic
Benedikte Møller Kristensen
Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work
Rikke Aarhus
Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty
Michal Frumer
Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions
Stine Hauberg Nielsen
Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care
Lenore Manderson
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.05.2023 |
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| Co-Autor | Rikke Sand Andersen, Stine Hauberg Nielsen, Michal Frumer |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 bw, 4 color, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 64 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2685-0 / 1978826850 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2685-4 / 9781978826854 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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