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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...
Antropologia n. 12
Questo numero di Antropologia, curato da Irene Maffi, intende proporre una riflessione intorno alla nascita, intesa nella sua complessità culturale, sociale, politica e economica, in quanto evento che occupa una posizione centrale nel modo in cui una società concepisce e organizza se stessa allo scopo di garantire la propria esistenza e la propria continuità nel tempo. La nascita permette di pensare alle articolazioni tra passato, presente e futuro e al senso attribuito ai processi di dare la vita e venire al mondo. Poiché la nascita è un evento cruciale per i singoli individui così come per tutta la collettività, il modo di definirla e di organizzarla sono altamente significativi di più ampi e articolati arrangiamenti simbolici e pratici. L’analisi sviluppata dagli articoli contenuti in questo volume si iscrive a pieno titolo all’interno dell’antropologia della nascita, una sotto-disciplina nata negli anni Settanta in contemporanea all’emergenza della riflessione femminista, e mira a mettere in luce gli aspetti pragmatici e nello stesso tempo simbolici e politici elaborati e messi in pratica dal sistema biomedico nella gestione della nascita.
Cultural Constructions of the Uterus in Pre-modern Societies, Past and Present
This volume addresses a set of historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through the dissection of both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography, and representation. It transcends Eurocentric models of understanding and representing the female body by bringing into the discussion a number of case studies taken from a larger number of cultural and social historical realities, including the Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East, Pre-Columbian America, East Asia, and Medieval Europe, that are explored from the methodological perspectives offered by a wide range of disciplines and epistemologies. Because of its intimate, indissoluble relation to the experience of being a woman, and because of its hiddenness within the body and darkness; its communication with the outside world and its accessibility through the vagina; its capacity to contain and give shelter; to engender and procreate; to expulse and give birth to both fully formed and truncated, deformed beings; and its potential to go in and out, the womb offers a wealth of possibilities to conceptualise the world.
Lawful Sins
Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to...
