Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State - Tapa blanda

 
9781978826847: Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
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ISBN 10: 1978826842 ISBN 13: 9781978826847
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

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".

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Acerca del autor

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".

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Editorial
Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1978826842
ISBN 13 
9781978826847
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
192
Editor
Andersen Rikke Sand, Tørring Marie Louise
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