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Cancer and the Politics of Care
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 terra...
Cancer Entangled
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".
Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies
Djordje Sredanovic goes beyond the theory of citizenship and nationality policy to explore how it is carried out in practice. The book draws on interviews with frontline officers for a comparative analysis of experiences in the UK and Belgium, revealing the level of autonomy of those on the frontline of integration in each country.
Care Work and Medical Travel
This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, Finland, Switzerland, and Russia.
Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895-2003
The portrayal of clergy, saints, missionaries, monks, and other spiritual leaders dates back to the very beginnings of motion pictures and television. Over the years, filmmakers have portrayed religious figures as heroes and villains, sinners and saints, and nearly everything in between. Through their works, filmmakers have influenced how society viewed these religious figures and, by extension, religion itself. This work details over 900 films and television series made from the 1890s through 2003 in which a religious figure plays a prominent or recurring role, or in which a character poses as a religious figure. For each motion picture, full filmographic data are provided--including title, studio, running time, year of release, director, producer, writer, and cast--along with a synopsis focusing on the role of the religious figure. Television series are covered in a separate section. For each show, the entry includes the title under which the show was commonly known; the original broadcast network; the years the show ran, running time, and cast; and a brief discussion of the religious character's role in the overall series. Extensively indexed.
Le Corps de l'identité
Le corps n’est pas seulement marqueur d’une identité notamment sexuée, mais possède un réel pouvoir transformateur, aussi utilisons-nous l’expression de « transformation corporelle ». Dans la mesure où le corps agit sur l’identité, nous proposons le concept de « corps-identité », notion qui signale le rôle fondamental que joue l’ordre du corporel. Si les rituels modifient le statut de la personne, il en est de même des chirurgies, attestant que le corps/identité est fondamentalement en devenir et non donné une fois pour toute. L’acte chirurgical, non dénué de souffrance, porte en soi l’avènement d’un nouveau corps mais aussi d’une existence inédite, le geste même de couper qu’implique toute chirurgie renvoie fantasmatiquement à la perspective de rompre avec le passé afin de changer de statut et d’existence, la transformation corporelle accomplie étant à la fois physique et identitaire.
Personalised cancer medicine
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this book traces their efforts to access and interpret novel genomic tests, information and treatments as they craft personal and collective futures. Exploring multiple experiences of new diagnostic tests, research programmes and trials, advocacy and experimental therapies, the authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed. Comparing these experiences with policy and professional accounts of the ‘big’ future of personalised healthcare, the authors show how hope and care are multi-faceted, contingent and, at times, frustrated in the everyday complexities of living and working with cancer.
Il Perdonatore
Weird - romanzo breve (46 pagine) - Perché i Perdonatori si moltiplicano e sono ovunque? Ma soprattutto, che cosa perdonano i Perdonatori? Chi è il Perdonatore con cui si rapporta l’estremista Frattasi Barnaba? si chiede l’Ispettore Telesca. È lo stesso che la prostituta minorenne Cinzia Greco custodisce chiuso in uno sgabuzzino della sua stanza nella Comunità alloggio in cui è ospitata? Ma poi quanti sono? Tutti uguali, asciutti, nerovestiti, d’aspetto austero, cappello floscio assurdamente rosso scarlatto sulla testa; si manifestano ovunque ci siano liti, conflitti, manifestazioni violente, scontri, battaglie, guerre! E sono così popolari tra avversari e contendenti da poter di...
A Contagious Cause
Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer “germ,” inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious diseases, especially vaccination, might be able to subdue this dread disease. Today, nearly one in six cancers are thought to have an infectious cause, but the path to that understanding was twisting and turbulent. A Contagious Cause is the first book to trace the century-long hunt for a human cancer virus in America, an effort whose scale exceeded that of the Human Genome Project. The government’s ...
